Frequency: (168)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English (Lancashire): habitational name from any of various minor places named with Old English brōc ‘brook’ + feld ‘open country’, in particular Brookfield House in Nether Peover, Cheshire, recorded as le Brocfeld in the late 13th century.
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