Farnfield Family History
Farnfield Name Meaning
from a lost or unidentified place called Farnfold probably in Sussex named with Old English fearn ‘fern bracken’ + fald ‘fold’. perhaps also from Middle English fern(e) ‘fern bracken’ (Old English fearn) + feld ‘field’ (Old English feld) for someone who lived by a bracken-covered field or came from a place so named.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016