Last name: WAKEFIELD
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WAKEFIELD : This last name is indexed 103,419 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WAKEFIELD : English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in Yorkshire and from Wakefield Lawn in Potterspury (Northamptonshire). Both are named from the Old English personal name Waca or Old English wacu ‘wake festival’ + feld ‘open country’.
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