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Wakefield
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Origin Of The Surname Wakefield
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Meaning Of The Surname Wakefield
From the Town by the Festival Field
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Interesting
Facts About
Wakefield
Wakefield is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘wacu’ meaning festival combined with field to mean ‘the town by the festival field’. |
Wakefield Statistics
Wakefield is the number 1356 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,767 share the surname Wakefield in the UK.
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