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Mansfield
How to Pronounce Mansfield
Pronounced MANZ-feeld /ˈmænz.fild/Medium
Meaning: Mansfield is an English place-name and surname, most often explained as 'open land (field) by the River Maun' in Nottinghamshire, the river name plus Old English feld. Taken up as a given name, it belongs to the tradition of surnames and place-names bestowed as first names.Low
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U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Mansfield is an English place-name and surname adopted as a first name in the American fashion of turning family and map names into given ones. Recorded in small numbers from the late 1800s into the twentieth century, it was always rare, given to only a couple dozen boys a year.
A man named Mansfield would belong to a grandfather or great-grandfather generation, and the name has a solid, slightly stately air, easily shortened to Mann or Field. It reads as a distinguished surname-name rather than a name on any current upswing.
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What does the name Mansfield mean?
It is an English place-name and surname, usually explained as 'field by the River Maun'.
How do you pronounce Mansfield?
It's said MANZ-feeld /ˈmænz.fild/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Mansfield a boy or girl name?
Mansfield is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Mansfield?
It was always rare, an early-twentieth-century name given to only a couple dozen boys a year.