Last name origins & meanings:
- English: topographic name for someone who lived on land which
had been cleared of forest, but not brought into cultivation, from Old
English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, as opposed on the one
hand to æcer ‘cultivated soil’, ‘enclosed land’ (see
Acker) and on the other to weald ‘wooded land’, ‘forest’
(see Wald).
- Possibly also Scottish or Irish: reduced form
of McField (see McPhail).
- Jewish (American): Americanized and shortened form of any of the many Jewish surnames
containing Feld.
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