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Litchfield

in Massachusetts

There are 397 people with the last name "Litchfield" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Litchfield 1,914
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  1. is 1,910th most common Fulton
  2. is 1,911th most common Massey
  3. is 1,912th most common Senecal
  4. is 1,913th most common Crespo
  5. is 1,914th most common Litchfield
  6. is 1,915th most common Middleton
  7. is 1,916th most common Murdock
  8. is 1,917th most common Carmichael
  9. is 1,918th most common Han

Most Common First Names for Litchfield

John, Robert, William, Paul, David, Donald, James, Mark, Michael, Patricia

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. habitational name from Lichfield in Staffordshire. The first element preserves a British name recorded as Letocetum during the Romano-British period. This means ‘gray wood’, from words which are the ancestors of Welsh llŵyd ‘gray’ and coed ‘wood’. By the Old English period this had been reduced to Licced, and the element feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’was added to describe a patch of cleared land within the ancient wood.
  • 2. habitational name from Litchfield in Hampshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Liveselle. This is probably from an Old English hlīf ‘shelter’ + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’. The subsequent transformation of the place name may be the result of folk etymological association with Old English hlið, hlid ‘slope’ + feld ‘open country’.

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