Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : To guard, watchman

Boy name variations

Ward
Wardell
Warden
Wardley
Warford
Warley
Warmond
Warton
Warwick

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Berkshire called Warfield, from Old English wær ‘weir’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.
  • Richard Warfield came from Berkshire, England, to MD in 1662.

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