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Received this from a publication called "Monmouth Roots - The Arrowsmith Family" - this is about the NJ Arrowsmiths, but probably applies to all of us:
"This name does not, as it may seem, denote derivation from an ancestor who was a fabricator of arrowheads. It comes, rather from the Frisian "atteschmidt"(itself the equivalent of the German "Ritter-schmidt" or Knightssmith) which softened in to Athersmith, became finally, the Arrowsmith of the present day. Originally it denoted an armorer, a class that rated so high in the days of chivalry that its members, by the very fact of their occupation, belonged to the lower orders of nobility."
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