as a Last Name
- 13,773
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Wakefield
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu ‘vigil’, ‘festival’ (a derivative of wac(i)an ‘to watch or wake’) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,773
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Wakefield per capita
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