Origin
Golde : 1: Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Golde meaning ‘gold’.2: German: from a short form of any of several ancient Germanic personal names composed of gold ‘gold’.
Gold : 1: Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.2: English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’ applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold i.e. a refiner jeweler or gilder or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.3: English: from an Old English personal name Golda (or the feminine Golde) which persisted into the Middle Ages as a personal name. The name was in part a byname from gold ‘gold’ and in part a short form of various compound names with this first element.
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.
Goldup : perhaps from Middle English gold ‘gold’ + hop(p)e ‘trust confidence’ with various interpretations possible.perhaps from a lost or as yet unidentified place named from Middle English golde ‘marigold marsh marigold’ + hop(p)e ‘enclosure in marshy land remote enclosed place’.
Goldwell : 1: from any of several places named from Middle English golde ‘(marsh) marigold’ + wel(le) ‘stream water source’ such as Goldwells in Horndon on the Hill (Essex) or Goldwell Farm in Charlton Abbots (Gloucs). 2: variant of Coldwell (see Caldwell) with voiced initial consonant. Redmonds Dictionary of Yorks Surnames notes that in Holmfirth WR Yorks Nicholas Coldwell (1664 in Parish Registers) is probably identical with Nicholas Gouldwell (1664 in Hearth Tax).
Golson : English: patronymic from the Middle English masculine personal name Golda or feminine Golde (see Gold).
Goodall : English (mainly Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire):: 1: metonymic occupational name from Middle English god(e) ‘good’ + ale ‘ale’; perhaps denoting an innkeeper or tan ale taster. An ale taster was a manorial or borough court official appointed to regulate the quality of ale sold by inns and alewives especially with the duty of preventing the sale of sour or watered-down ale.2: alternatively it may be a habitational name from Gowdall near Snaith in Yorkshire. This place was named in Old English with golde ‘marigold’ + halh ‘nook recess’.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
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