English: habitational name from a place in Essex, recorded in
Domesday Book as Springinghefelda and as Springafelda,
probably from Old English Springingafeld ‘pasture (feld)
of the people who live by a spring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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