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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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