Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Promontory
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Garfield
Family name origins & meanings
- English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, generally from a field name denoting a triangular area, Old English gāra (see Gore) at the corner of an open field after rectangular furlongs had been laid out.
- Jewish : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.
- U.S. President James Abram Garfield (1831–81) was preceded by at least six Garfields born in America, his immigrant ancestor having come to Massachusetts Bay with John Winthrop in 1630.