The surname Fifield
An English place surname, carried by 2,699 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex F143
Origin
English origin
From Old English fīf (“five”) + hīd (“hide, a unit of land”).
Fifield is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,699 people named Fifield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 114,393 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,697.
#11,622
rank among US surnames
2,699
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #10,848)
Who is named Fifield
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Fifield identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Fifield come from?
- From Old English fīf (“five”) + hīd (“hide, a unit of land”).
- How common is the surname Fifield?
- 2,699 people in the United States had the surname Fifield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 114,393 Americans. It ranked 11,622nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Fifield?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Fifield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Fifield?
- Fifield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Fifield getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,697 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,699 in 2010, up 0.1%.