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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Caulfield.
  • Americanized spelling of German Kauffeld (see Caufield) or alternatively perhaps of the topographic name Kohfeld, a Low German variant of Kuhfeld, which is from Middle High German kuo ‘cow’ + velt ‘open country’.

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