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Litchfield

in the US

There are 3,905 people with the last name "Litchfield" in the United States.

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Litchfield 6,809
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  1. is 6,805th most common Lor
  2. is 6,806th most common Hazelton
  3. is 6,807th most common Magallanes
  4. is 6,808th most common Saltzman
  5. is 6,809th most common Litchfield
  6. is 6,810th most common Friel
  7. is 6,811th most common Langan
  8. is 6,812th most common Struble
  9. is 6,813th most common Liston

Most Common First Names for Litchfield

John, Robert, William, David, James, Michael, Mary, Richard, Patricia, Charles

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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