The mayfield Surname
mayfield Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from places so named in Staffordshire
and Sussex. The former was named in Old English as ‘open country
(feld) where madder (mæddre) grows’, while the latter
was named as ‘open country where mayweed (mægðe)
grows’. The surname is now most common in Nottinghamshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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