Banfield Family History
Banfield Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places named in Old English from bean ‘beans’ (collective singular) + feld ‘field’, ‘open land’, as for example Benville in Dorset. Irish: variant of the Norman family name Banville (see Bonfield), associated primarily with county Wexford.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press