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barfield Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name, probably from Bardfield in Essex, which is named with an unattested Old English byrde ‘(river) bank’, ‘border’ + feld ‘open land’. The name is still most common in northern Essex.
  2. topographic name for someone who lived in an area where barley was cultivated, from Middle English berefeld.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of barfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of barfield families
 147-292
 50-146		 1-49
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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