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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