Fairfield
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fairfield is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 84K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fairfield counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Fairfield | 3 |
| US United States | 2,630 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Fairfield | 305 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Fairfield | 123 |
| CA Canada | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Fairfield | 76 |
| AU Australia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Fairfield | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Fairfield | 16 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
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 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fairfield mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘dweller by the fair field’; first attested Ralph de Feirfeld 1327 SRDb Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Fairfield have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Fairfield in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fairfield.
- How common is the name Fairfield?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,630 people named Fairfield in 2010, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fairfieldThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fairfield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.