Browse Surnames

This is a list of surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword metal.
usage
meaning
Argyris m Greek
Means "silver" in Greek.
Bandoni Italian
From Italian bandone meaning "sheet of iron".
Blecher German
Occupational name for someone who worked with tin or sheet metal, from German blech "tin".
Brasher English
Means "brass worker", derived from Old English bræs "brass".
Çelik Turkish
Occupational name for a metalworker, meaning "steel" in Turkish.
Chilikov m Bulgarian
Derived from Bulgarian челик (chelik) meaning "steel" (of Turkish origin).
Copperfield Literature
Created 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 Turkish
Means "iron" in Turkish, originally referring to an ironworker.
Demirci Turkish
Means "blacksmith" in Turkish.
Farran English
Derived from Old French ferrant meaning "iron grey".
Ferrara Italian
Italian form of Ferreira.
Ferreira Portuguese, Galician
Denoted a person from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from Latin ferrum meaning "iron".
Ferri Italian
Variant of Ferro.
Ferro Italian, Spanish
Means "iron", ultimately from Latin ferrum. This was an occupational name for one who worked with iron.
Gold English, German, Jewish
From 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.
Goldhirsch Jewish
Means "golden stag" in Yiddish.
Goldschmidt German
Occupational name meaning "goldsmith" in German.
Herrera Spanish
Spanish form of Ferreira.
Hierro Spanish
Spanish form of Ferro.
Jin Chinese
From Chinese (jīn) meaning "gold".
Kaneko Japanese
From Japanese (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and (ko) meaning "child".
Kanemaru Japanese
From Japanese (kane) meaning "gold, metal, money" and (maru) meaning "circle, round, whole".
Kim Korean
Korean form of Jin, from Sino-Korean (gim) meaning "gold". This is the most common surname in South Korea.
Oriol Catalan
From Catalan or meaning "gold", originally a nickname for a person with blond hair.
Silver English
From a nickname for a person with grey hair, from Old English seolfor "silver".
Stalin History
Surname 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 English
Occupational name for a steelworker, from Old English stele meaning "steel".
Vass Hungarian
Derived 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 Jewish
Occupational name for a silversmith from Yiddish zilber "silver" and schlag "strike".
Zilberstein Jewish
Ornamental name meaning "silver stone", from Yiddish זילבער (zilber) and שטיין (shtein), both of Old High German origin.