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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana + feld ‘open country’.
  • English : in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime, France.

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