Last name: BUTTERFIELD
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BUTTERFIELD : This last name is indexed 76,315 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BUTTERFIELD : English: habitational name from Butterfield (Yorkshire) or from any of several other minor places with the same name. The name is derived from Old English butere ‘butter’ + feld ‘field’ or ‘open country’.
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