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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place named in Old English with hālig ‘holy’ + Old English feld ‘open country’. This may be Holyfield in Essex (which belonged to Waltham Abbey), but the present-day distribution of the name (mainly in the Midlands and Wales) suggests that another source may be involved.

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