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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire and Lancashire) : either a variant of Horsfall, or else a habitational name from an unidentified place named with Old English hors ‘horse’ (perhaps a byname) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.

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