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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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