as a Last Name
- 20,828
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Mansfield
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire. The early forms, from Domesday Book to the early 13th century, show the first element uniformly as Mam-, and it is therefore likely that this was a British hill-name meaning ‘breast’ (compare Manchester), with the later addition of Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Field) as the second element. The surname is now widespread throughout Midland and southern England and is also common in Ireland.
| 1,735th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 20,828
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Mansfield per capita
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