as a Last Name
- 18,840
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Goldsmith
Meaning & Origins
English: occupational name for a worker in gold, a compound of Old English gold ‘gold’ + smið ‘smith’. In North America it is very often an English translation of German or Jewish Goldschmidt.
| 1,945th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,840
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maryland
- has the most people named Goldsmith per capita
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