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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester called Belfield, from the name of the Beal river + Old English feld ‘open country’. The river name is possibly from Old English bēogol ‘winding’.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Belleville.

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