Masefield

Habitational surname from the village of Madresfield, in Worcestershire.

Masefield (countable and uncountable, plural Masefields)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A locality, now unpopulated, in the Rural Municipality of Val Marie, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after John Masefield.

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Masefield is the 15551^st most common surname in England, belonging to 331 individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Masefield”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 527.

• Smeafield, field seam