Byfield
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by open country, or person from Byfield
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbaɪˌfiɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Byfield is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person who lives by open country, or person from Byfield.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Byfield is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Byfield, Northamptonshire, or ‘dweller by the open country’; first attested Nigel de Bifeld’ 1202 FFNf
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, example in Northants, so called from OE byge bend (see Bye) + feld pasture, open country. 2. topographic name for somone who lived near a patch of open land, from ME by by, beside (OE bi) + fe(i)ld(e) open country. Bywater 87
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A placename:
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)
- Nicholas Byfieldb. 1579GBEnglish priest
- John Byfieldb. 1788English wood-engraver (1788–1841)
- Mary Byfieldb. 1795GBEnglish wood-engraver (1795–1871)
- Arnold Byfieldb. 1923AUAustralian footballer and cricketer (1923-2015)
- Ted Byfieldb. 1928CACanadian journalist
- Link Byfieldb. 1951CACanadian politician
- Bruce Byfieldb. 1958journalist
- Darren Byfieldb. 1976GBEnglish footballer (born 1976)
- Quinton Byfieldb. 2002CACanadian ice hockey player
- Jun'ai Byfieldb. 2008GBEnglish footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,157 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,143 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 36 | #2,600 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Byfield mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by open country, or person from Byfield. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Byfield have the most bearers?
- Byfield is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Byfield?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbaɪˌfiɫd/ (IPA) for English.
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About this data
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Byfield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.