English
The name 'Golden' originates from England and Germany. It is a variant from the surname 'Gold' in itself derived from a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold (from the Old English, Old High German word 'gold') meaning a refiner. Jeweller, or glider. It is also derived from the English and German nickname for someone with bright yellow hair, with refrence to the colour of the metal. Also a derivative from the Old English personal name 'Golda' (or the femenine 'Golde') which persisted into the Middle Ages as a given name. The name was in part a byname from gold, and in part a short form of the various names eith this first element. In the United States it is often a shortened form of any of the Variant´s: 'Goold', 'Gould', 'Goldman', 'Gilder', 'Goldner', 'Gollner', 'Geldner', 'Gellner', 'Go(o)lden', 'Goulden', 'Goldner', 'Goldman'. Compiled information from Historical and Private archive's has confirmed that the surname 'Golden' and or it's variant's, dates as far back as the 13th century were a 'Hilde Golden', from Cambridgeshire, England, is recorded on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. The exact period of settlement in North America has not been definately determined but Information extracted from Public and Civil registry archive's confirm that one of the first settlers was a certain 'Elias G Golde' aged22, from Schleitz, Germany , emigrated to North America in 1863. He sailed from the Port of Bremen. 'Golden' is the '490th' most common surname in North America.