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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Yorkshire and central England) : habitational name from any of the various places named Hatfield, for example in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, and Essex, from Old English hǣð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.

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