Frequency: (149)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Barnfield (near Egerton in Kent) or Barnfields (in Herefordshire and Staffordshire), probably from Middle English barn ‘barn’ + feld ‘area of open country’.
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