Scofield
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈskoʊˌfiɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scofield is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 55K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 60K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
6,048 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Singapore, 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)
person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scofield 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 6,048 | 1 in 55K | 6.1K | Scofield | 357 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Scofield | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 556 | Scofield | 104 |
| IT Italy | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Scofield | 8 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Scofield | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Scofield | 66 |
| AU Australia | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Scofield | 70 |
| SG Singapore | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Scofield | 8 |
6,048 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; 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)
Scofield 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, Paul, English actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Glenni William Scofieldb. 1817USAmerican politician, lawyer and judge (1817–1891)
- Edward Scofieldb. 1842USUnion Army officer (1842-1925)
- Cyrus Scofieldb. 1843USAmerican theologian, minister and writer (1843-1921)
- Paul Scofieldb. 1922GBBritish actor (1922–2008)
- Barbara Scofieldb. 1926USUS American tennis player (1926–2023)
- Sandra Scofieldb. 1943USAmerican author
- John Scofieldb. 1951USAmerican jazz guitarist and composer (born 1951)
- Dean Scofieldb. 1957American actor
- Paul Scofieldb. 1966NZNew Zealand paleontologist, ornithologist, herpetologist (born 1966)
- Zoe ScofieldUSAmerican choreographer
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.1K | #5,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,684 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 556 | #10,444 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Scofield?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskoʊˌfiɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Scofield mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Schofield, a northern English place-name meaning ‘field with a hut’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Scofield have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Scofield, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scofield.
- How common is the name Scofield?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,048 people named Scofield in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scofieldThe 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, “Scofield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.