as a Last Name
- 24,592
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Field
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived on land which had been cleared of forest, but not brought into cultivation, from Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, as opposed on the one hand to æcer ‘cultivated soil’, ‘enclosed land’ (see Acker) and on the other to weald ‘wooded land’, ‘forest’ (see Wald).
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,592
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Field per capita
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