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hatfield Name Meaning and History

English (mainly Yorkshire and central England): habitational name from any of the various places named Hatfield, for example in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, and Essex, from Old English h?ð ‘heathland’, ‘heather’ + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.

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

Distribution of hatfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of hatfield families
 209-415
 70-208		 1-69
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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