Last name: GOLDER

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GOLDER : This last name is indexed 25,268 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

GOLDER : 1: German (also Gölder) mainly Swiss German: variant of Goldner ‘gold worker or gilder (someone skilled in decorating objects and surfaces with a thin layer of gold leaf) or a jeweler who worked in gold’. This is also found as an occupational name for a prospector in a goldfield a gold panner.2: Jewish: variant of Gold.3: English: from the Old English personal name Goldhere composed of the elements gold ‘gold’ + here ‘army’.4: English: habitational name from Golder Manor in Oxfordshire so named from Old English golde ‘marigold’ (a derivative of gold) + ōra ‘slope’.5: English: occupational name from Middle English golder ‘gilder’ an agent derivative of Middle English gold.

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