Moorefield
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Moorefield
Frequency: (748)
(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): probably an altered form of the Norman baronial name de Morville, borne by a family who held land in Yorkshire and northern Lancashire in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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