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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish : variant spelling of Caulfield.
  • Americanized form of German Kauffeld, a development from Kaufwald, seemingly topographic names with the familiar suffixes -feld ‘open country’, -wald ‘wood(s)’, but actually derivatives or nicknames from Old High German kouf ‘trade’, ‘purchase’. See Koff.

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