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The surname Redfield was first found in Lancashire where they held a family seat as Lords of the manor of Redfern near Rochdale, some say before the Norman Conquest in 1066 A.D. Early History of the Redfield family. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Redfield research.
Our research clearly indicates that the name is of Scottish origin and derives from 'Reidfuyrd' - 'the Reedy Ford' first recorded in Angus in the 13th Century, the present name being an Anglicized variant created by dialectual change.
The Redfield family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Schottland between 1840 and 1920. The most Redfield families were found in USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 62 Redfield families living in New York.
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Redfield is the 11443rd most popular name in Americabased on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Redfield surname appeared 2,752 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Redfield. We can also compare 2010 data for Redfield to data fr...
The surname Redfield is of English origin and dates back to the late 12th century. It is a locational name derived from the Old English words "read" meaning red, and "feld" meaning field or open land. This suggests the name originally referred to someone who lived near a red field or red land. One of the earliest recorded references to the name is ...
We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Redfield. The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups: 1. White only 2. Black only 3. American Indian and Alaskan Native ...
The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau. The history and meaning of the name Redfield was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts. If you have a correction or suggestion to improve the histo...
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As a last name Redfield was the 11,443 rd most popular name in 2010. When was the first name Redfield first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the name Redfield is Saturday, March 28th, 1885.
