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whitfield Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places named Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, named with Old English hwit ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, because of their chalky or soil.

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

Distribution of whitfield Families in the US in 1920
Number of whitfield families
 213-424
 72-212		 1-71
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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