Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from any of several places so named.
- German : topographic name from fields so named because they were cultivated only in the summer, from Middle High German sumer, Middle Low German somer ‘summer’ + Middle High German, Middle Low German velt ‘open country’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German Sommer ‘summer’ + Feld ‘field’. Compare Sommer.
- English : variant of Summerfield.