Last name: WHITFIELD
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WHITFIELD : This last name is indexed 104,996 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WHITFIELD : English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitfield for example in Derbyshire Gloucestershire Kent Northamptonshire and Northumberland or Whitefield in Lancashire and the Isle of Wight named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’ probably because of their chalky soil.
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