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The canfield Surname

canfield Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana + feld ‘open country’.
  2. in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime, France.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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canfield Family Facts

Distribution of canfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of canfield families
 195-388
 66-194		 1-65
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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