How common is the surname Oldfield?

2,816 people in the United States had the surname Oldfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,640 Americans. It ranked 11,226th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Oldfield?

Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (1878-1946), followed by Brian Oldfield.

Where is the surname Oldfield most common?

Wikidata records people named Oldfield in the United States, the Kingdom of Great Britain and Australia and 1 other country.

Is the surname Oldfield getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,816 in 2010, down 1.4%.

The surname Oldfield

An English place surname, carried by 2,816 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex O431

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Oldfield is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English eald (“old”) + feld (“field”).

Oldfield 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 2,816 people named Oldfield in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,640 Americans. That is down 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,856.

#11,226

rank among US surnames

2,816

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

-1.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,334)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,223	Yeary	2,818	109,562
#11,225	Wolfgang	2,817	109,601
#11,226	Rohrbach	2,816	109,640
#11,228	Killinger	2,815	109,679
#11,229	Berthiaume	2,814	109,718

Who is named Oldfield

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Oldfield identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Oldfields

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Barney Oldfield
American racing driver (1878-1946)
Brian Oldfield
American shot putter (1945–2017)
Anne Oldfield
British actress (1683-1730)
Bert Oldfield
Australian cricketer (1894-1976)
William Allan Oldfield
American politician (1874-1928)
Mr. Methane
British entertainer, born 1966

Notable Oldfields come mostly from the United States (3), the Kingdom of Great Britain (1) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Offield

Oldfield has the Soundex code O431, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O431.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Oldfield come from?: From Old English eald (“old”) + feld (“field”).
How common is the surname Oldfield?: 2,816 people in the United States had the surname Oldfield in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,640 Americans. It ranked 11,226th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Oldfield?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Oldfield identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Oldfield?: Barney Oldfield, American racing driver (1878-1946), followed by Brian Oldfield.
Where is the surname Oldfield most common?: Wikidata records people named Oldfield in the United States, the Kingdom of Great Britain and Australia and 1 other country.
What type of surname is Oldfield?: Oldfield is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Oldfield getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,816 in 2010, down 1.4%.
What are other spellings of Oldfield?: Offield.