Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish : Americanization of Ashkenazic Goldstein.
- English : from the Old English personal name Goldstān, composed of the elements gold ‘gold’ + stān ‘stone’.
- English : habitational name for someone from a place in Shropshire named Goldstone, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Golda (see Gold 4) + Old English stān ‘stone’; or from one in Kent, recorded in the early 13th century as Goldstanestun ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Goldstān’.