The stansfield Surname
stansfield Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, probably named with the genitive case of the Old English personal name Stan ‘stone’, a byname or short form of any of various compound names with this as the first element (compare, for example, Stammer, Stannard) + Old English feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.
- alternatively, it may be a topographic name from Middle English stanesfeld ‘open country of the (standing) stone’, with reference to a prominent monolith. There are other places so called, for example in Suffolk, but the distribution suggests that the one in Yorkshire is the source of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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