Fieldhouse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person who lives in a house in open country’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/fʲiɫdhaws/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fieldhouse is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
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 in a house in open country’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
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)
Fieldhouse 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, dweller at the house in the fields; first attested Thomas de Feldeshous 1332 SRSt
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, land); topographic name for someone who lived in a house (OE hus) in open pasture land (see Field). Reaney draws attention to the form de Felhouse (Staffs. 1332), and suggests that this may have become Fellowes (see h ellow).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, Alternative form of field house.
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)
- John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouseb. 1928GBBritish Royal Navy officer (1928-1992)
- Roger Fieldhouseb. 1940GBBritish historian
- Ken Fieldhouseb. 1948British landscape architect
- Simon Fieldhouseb. 1956AUAustralian artist
- John Fieldhouseb. 1962GBEnglish rugby league footballer and coach
- Simon Fieldhouseb. 1976GBBritish rower
- R. T. FieldhouseGBresearcher
- David FieldhouseCAPh.D. McGill University 1967
- M. FieldhouseGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 1962
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 468 | #48,712 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 462 | #46,138 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 414 | #48,021 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #327,855 |
| 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 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Fieldhouse mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person who lives in a house in open country’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Fieldhouse?
- A machine transcription gives /fʲiɫdhaws/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fieldhouse have the most bearers?
- Fieldhouse is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fieldhouse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.