The hatfield Surname
hatfield Name Meaning and History
English (mainly Yorkshire and central England): habitational name
from any of the various places named Hatfield, for example in
Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire,
Hertfordshire, and Essex, from Old English h?ð
‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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