Last name: CANFIELD
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CANFIELD : This last name is indexed 43,921 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CANFIELD : English:: 1: habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex named with the Old English personal name Cana (see Cane 2) + feld ‘open country’.2: in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime (France).
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