| |  | | There are 27,334 people with the Wakefield surname on MyHeritage.com
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| | | | | | The meaning of the name Wakefield:
| | English: habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu ‘vigil’, ‘festival’ (a derivative of wac(i)an ‘to watch or wake’) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held. | | | Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, Mar 2003 |
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| | | | Most popular first names with surname Wakefield:
Ann
Charles
Elizabeth
Hannah
Henry
James
John
Joseph
Martha
Mary
Rebecca
Samuel
Sarah
Thomas
William
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