Given name & surname
Sheffield
“from the crooked field”
Sheffield is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the crooked field.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the crooked field.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English scēaþ (“boundary”), from Old English feld (“field, open land”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sheffield through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 77
- 77 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 154 as a first name in 2020; 18,548 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sheffield’s family of names
Sheffield has a related form in Sheffeld. In English usage, Sheffield as a surname has a related form in SHEVEL. In English usage, Sheffield as a surname has a related form in SHUFFIELD.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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