Blecher GermanOccupational name for someone who worked with tin or sheet metal, from German
blech "tin".
Brasher EnglishMeans
"brass worker", derived from Old English
bræs "brass".
Çelik TurkishOccupational name for a metalworker, meaning
"steel" in Turkish.
Copperfield LiteratureCreated from the English words
copper and
field by the author Charles Dickens, who used it for the title character in his novel
David Copperfield (1850).
Demir TurkishMeans
"iron" in Turkish, originally referring to an ironworker.
Farran EnglishDerived from Old French
ferrant meaning
"iron grey".
Ferreira Portuguese, GalicianDenoted a person from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from Latin
ferrum meaning "iron".
Ferro Italian, SpanishMeans
"iron", ultimately from Latin
ferrum. This was an occupational name for one who worked with iron.
Gold English, German, JewishFrom Old English and Old High German
gold meaning
"gold", an occupational name for someone who worked with gold or a nickname for someone with yellow hair. As a Jewish name it is ornamental.
Kim KoreanKorean form of
Jin, from Sino-Korean
金 (gim) meaning
"gold". This is the most common surname in South Korea.
Oriol CatalanFrom Catalan
or meaning
"gold", originally a nickname for a person with blond hair.
Silver EnglishFrom a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English
seolfor "silver".
Stalin HistorySurname adopted by the Russian leader Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) during his revolutionary years. He was an ethnic Georgian, born as Ioseb Jughashvili. He derived it from Russian
сталь (stal) meaning
"steel".
Steele EnglishOccupational name for a steelworker, from Old English
stele meaning
"steel".
Vass HungarianDerived from Hungarian
vas meaning
"iron", referring to a worker in iron, a miner of iron ore or a vendor of iron goods. Alternatively, from the same root word, it may have been a nickname referring to one with a distinctively strong constitution.
Zilberschlag JewishOccupational name for a silversmith from Yiddish
zilber "silver" and
schlag "strike".