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layfield Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a field that was untilled or used for pasture, from Middle English leye ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’, ‘fallow’ + feld ‘open country’, ‘field’, or a habitational name from Leyfield in Nottinghamshire, which has the same meaning.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of layfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of layfield families
 30-57
 11-29
 1-10
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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