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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of the places named with Old English brōm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + feld ‘open country’, for example Broomfield in Essex, Kent, and Somerset, or Bromfield in Cumberland and Shropshire.

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