Neufeld
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈnuˌfɛɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neufeld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Neufeld 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Neufeld | 136 |
| CA Canada | #656 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Neufeld | 187 |
| US United States | — | 3,344 | 1 in 99K | 3.5K | Neufeld | 312 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Neufeld | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 183K | 94 | Neufeld | 62 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Neufeld | 14 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Neufeld | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Neufeld | 24 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Neufeld 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 German, ornamental name from German Neufeld ‘new field’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, habitational name from any of several places called Neufeld, also the German name for Konielspol near Lodz in Poland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latvian, Lauka muiža, kas atradās Ilūkstes apriņķa Demenes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Daniel Neufeldb. 1814PLPolish-Jewish author, poet and educator
- Fred Neufeldb. 1869DEGerman physician
- Eugen Neufeldb. 1882ATactor (1882-1950)
- Max Neufeldb. 1887ATAustrian film director (1887–1967)
- Mace Neufeldb. 1928USAmerican film and television producer (1928–2022)
- Gordon Neufeldb. 1947CACanadian psychologist
- Peter Neufeldb. 1950USAmerican lawyer
- Kevin Neufeldb. 1960CACanadian rower (1960–2022)
- Shmulik Neufeldb. 1961ILIsraeli musician
- Josh Neufeldb. 1967USAmerican cartoonist specializing in nonfiction
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,946 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #10,056 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 94 | #34,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Neufeld mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Neufeld?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnuˌfɛɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Neufeld have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Neufeld in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neufeld.
- How common is the name Neufeld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,344 people named Neufeld in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Neufeld compared with other names?
- In Canada, Neufeld is the 656th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neufeldThe 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, “Neufeld” — the 656th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.