Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the late Old English personal name Golding, in form a patronymic from Golda (see Gold 4).
  • German : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gold, guld ‘gold’, ‘bright’.
  • Jewish (from Latvia and Lithuania) : habitational name from Golding, the German and Yiddish name of the city of Kuldīga in Latvia.

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