Canfield

At the 2020 census, 11,030 Americans bore the surname Canfield — 3,197th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 27,100.

By the numbers

People: 11,030
Rank: 3,197th
How common: 1 in 27,100
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

Habitational surname from the villages of Great and Little Canfield, in Essex, from the Old English personal name Cana + feld (“field”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Canfield described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Canfield

Jack Canfield (born 1944)American writer and motivational speaker
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879–1958)American author and social activist
Mary Grace Canfield (1924–2014)American theatre, film and television actress

People named Canfield with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Canfield

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.