Fairfield
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fairfield is a name, most frequently recorded in Australia. It appears chiefly in English and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb.
- AUAustralia1 in 34◐
- CACanada1 in 7K
- USUnited States1 in 126K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- Sources
- 266 ●
- 1 in 126K ◐
across 4 countries
28K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | 1,717,762 | 909 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 59 |
| CA Canada | 31,235 | 781 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 56 |
| US United States | 2,630 | 22K rec. | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Fairfield | 266 |
| GB United Kingdom | 1,184 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 91 |
| RU Russia | 152 | 35 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | 83 | 69 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 14 |
| CN China | 74 | 32 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 3 |
| IN India | 35 | 52 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 9 |
| MT Malta | 11 | 4 rec. | — | — | Fairfield | 1 |
| ES Spain | 9 | 20 rec. | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | Fairfield | 14 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 30 rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 15 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.4M72%
- Finnish5741%
- Albanian2931%
- Spanish2151%
- Greek1881%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,387,660 | 72% |
| Finnish | 574 | 1% |
| Albanian | 293 | 1% |
| Spanish | 215 | 1% |
| Greek | 188 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Fairfield is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A number of places in England:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Charles Fairfieldb. 1761GBBritish artist (1761-1804)
- John Fairfieldb. 1797USAmerican politician (1797-1847)
- Edmund Burke Fairfieldb. 1821USAmerican politician (1821–1904)
- Caroline Fairfield Corbinb. 1835USAmerican author, social reformer, anti-suffragist (1835–1918)
- Louis W. Fairfieldb. 1858USAmerican politician (1858-1930)
- Arthur P. Fairfieldb. 1877USUnited States Navy admiral (1877-1946)
- Letitia Fairfieldb. 1885GBdoctor, lawyer, war-worker, and first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London (1885–1978)
- George Fairfieldb. 1912CACanadian politician (1912-1978)
- Paula Fairfieldb. 1961CACanadian artist and sound engineer (born 1961)
- April FairfieldUSAmerican politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,173 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #108,712 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 7 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fairfield?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Fairfield (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fairfield have the most bearers?
- Fairfield is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled fairfield.
- What does the name Fairfield mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb
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