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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Yorkshire) : habitational name, perhaps from Dransfield Hill in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, which contains the Old English genitive of drān ‘drone’ + feld ‘open country’. Drān may be a byname in this instance.

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