American Family Name Origins:
Whitefield
Frequency: (523)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from places in Greater Manchester and the Isle of Wight, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’ (see Whitfield).
2. Americanized form of German Weissfeld (see Weisfeld).
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
