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AasEstonian Aas is an Estonian surname meaning "lea" or "open grassy area".
AassaluEstonian Aassalu is an Estonian surname meaning "lea (open grassy area) grove".
BenfieldEnglish habitational name from one or more of the numerous places in England called Benfield or Binfield which are named from Middle English bent "bent-grass" and feld "open country" or "land converted to arable use" (Old English beonet and feld).
BradfieldEnglish habitational name from any of the places in Berkshire Devon Essex Suffolk South Yorkshire and elsewhere named Bradfield from Old English brad "broad" and feld "open country" meaning "wide field".
BreedingGerman From the Low German brēde "open field". Denotes a person from such a place.
BroomfieldEnglish From a place name meaning "gorse field", from Old English brom "gorse" and feld "field, open country".
CavillEnglish Derived from Cavil, a place located in the East Riding of Yorkshire in northern England, named from Old English ca meaning "jackdaw" and feld meaning "open country". It is borne by the British actor Henry Cavill (1983-).
DornfeldGerman topographic name for someone who lived by a field where thorn bushes grew from Middle High German Middle Low German dorn "thorn" and feld "open country".
ElgezabalBasque From the name of a neighborhood in the municipality of Zornotza, Spain, derived from Basque elge "field, cultivated land" and zabal "wide, broad, open".
FeldhausGerman habitational name from a place called Feldhaus after a "house standing in open country", derived from the elements feld "field" and hus "house"... [more]
GrünfeldGerman, Jewish Habitational name from any of several places in northern and central Germany named Grünfeld named with elements meaning "green open country" derived from the elements gruoni "green" and feld "field"... [more]
HadfieldEnglish Habitational name from a place so named in Derbyshire named from Old English hæþ "heathland heather" and feld "field" meaning "heath open land".
HollifieldEnglish habitational name from a minor place called as "the holy field" (Old English holegn "holy" and feld "open country") perhaps Holyfield in Waltham Holy Cross (Essex) or less likely for linguistic reasons Hellifield (Yorkshire).
IparragirreBasque Derived from Basque ipar "north; north wind" and ageri "open, clear, prominent" (see Aguirre).
IrarrazabalBasque Possibly derived from Basque ira "fern" or ilharre "heather" and zabal "wide, broad; open".
KampGerman, Dutch, Danish From the Germanic element kamp "field", derived from Latin campus "open space, battlefield".
KeosavathLao From Lao ແກ້ວ (keo) meaning "gem, jewel" and ສະຫວາດ (savath) meaning "sincere, open, beautiful".
LarrazabalBasque, Spanish Habitational name derived from Basque larre "field, pastureland, prairie" and zabal "wide, open, ample".
LengsavathLao From Lao ແລງ (leng) meaning "evening" and ສະຫວາດ (sawat) meaning "fond, affectionate" or "sincere, open".
LoiaItalian Most likely a variant of Aloia. May alternately be related to Italian loggia "atrium, open-roofed gallery", Greek λεώς (leos) "the people", or Tuscan loia "dirt, filth on clothes or skin", perhaps a nickname for someone with a profession that often made them dirty, such as mining.
MansfieldEnglish Means "open land by the River Maun", from the Celtic river name combined with the Old English word feld "field".
MinayaSpanish From Minaya, the name of a town in Albacete province, Spain. According to the scholar Miguel Asín Palacios, the place name comes means "open and visible path" from Arabic. It has also been speculated that the place name has Basque origins, meaning "ore", "ore vein" or "asphodel pastures".
MontapertoItalian My father tells me this name means "open mountain." It seems to have come from a small area around Agrigento in Sicily, Italy.
NetleyEnglish Locative name from Netley Marsh in Eling (Hants), which is recorded as Nateleg in 1248. The place name derives from Old English næt "wet" + lēah "open woodland".
NiedfeldtGerman Topographic name for a person who lived by a lower area of open land, derived from Middle Low German nider meaning "lower" and feld meaning "open country".
OihartzabalBasque (Rare) Derived from Basque oihan "forest, woods" and zabal "wide, broad, open".
OkiJapanese From Japanese 沖 (oki) meaning "open sea".
OkiayuJapanese Oki means "open sea" and ayu means "trout".
OkieJapanese Oki means "open sea" and e means "inlet, river".
OkimatsuJapanese Matsu means "pine, fir tree" and oki means "open sea".
OkimotoJapanese From Japanese 沖 (oki) meaning "open sea" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".
OkinoJapanese O could mean "big, great" and ki can mean "tree, wood", or it could be spelled as oki meaning "open sea", and no means "field, plain".
OkinoJapanese From Japanese 沖 (oki) meaning "open sea" and 野 (no) meaning "field, wilderness".
OkiseJapanese Oki means "open sea" and se means "river".
OkitaJapanese From Japanese 沖 (oki) meaning "open sea" and 田 (ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
OkitaniJapanese Oki could mean "open sea", or it could be spelled as o meaning "big, great", and tani meaning "valley".
ÕuemetsEstonian Õuemets is an Estonian surname meaning "open forest".
PaoEstonian Pao is an Estonian surname, derived from "paotama", meaning "slightly open".
PhongsavathLao From Lao ພົງ (phong) meaning "family, lineage" and ສະຫວາດ (sawat) meaning "sincere, open, beautiful".
PlassGerman From Middle Low German plas meaning "place, open square, street". Can also derive from a medieval form of the given name Blasius.
RumfeltGerman, Dutch Altered spelling of German Romfeld, derived from Middle Low German rüm- meaning "to clear (land)" and feld meaning "open country, field", hence a topographic name or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a person engaged in clearing woodland, or in some cases a habitational name for someone from Romfelt in the Ardennes... [more]
SavathLao Means "sincere, open, beautiful" in Lao.
SisavathLao From Lao ສີ (si) meaning "splendour, brilliance, glory" and ສະຫວາດ (savath) meaning "sincere, open, beautiful".
SouksavathLao From Lao ສຸກ (souk) meaning "happiness, pleasure, joy" and ສະຫວາດ (savath) meaning "sincere, open, beautiful".
StansfieldEnglish (British) Habitational name from a place in West Yorkshire, probably named with the genitive case of the Old English personal name Stan 1 "stone" and Old English feld "pasture, open country"... [more]
StradivariItalian Italian surname of uncertain origin, either from the plural of Lombard stradivare meaning "toll-man" or from strada averta meaning "open road" in the Cremonese dialect. A famous bearer was Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), a violin-maker of Cremona.
VäljasEstonian Väljas is an Estonian surname meaning "afield" or "out in the open".
VongsavathLao From Lao ວົງ (vong) meaning "lineage, family" and ສະຫວາດ (savath) meaning "sincere, open, beautiful".
WeisfeldGerman, Jewish topographic name from a field name composed of Middle High German wiz "white" and feld "open country". Cognate of Whitfield.
ZabaletaBasque Habitational name meaning "very wide place", derived from Basque zabal "wide, broad, open" and -eta "place of, abundance of".
ZhanChinese From Chinese 展 (zhǎn) meaning "open, unfold, stretch, extend".