Mansfield

At the 2020 census, 17,921 Americans bore the surname Mansfield — 1,967th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,700.

By the numbers

People: 17,921
Rank: 1,967th
How common: 1 in 16,700
Per 100,000: 6.0

Where the name comes from

From Old English Mamesfeld, from a Brythonic word mamm, meaning "mother" or "breast" + feld (“field”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Black, not Hispanic 6.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)New Zealand author
Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967)American actress
Peter Mansfield (1933–2017)English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
Mike Mansfield (1903–2001)American politician and diplomat
Martha Mansfield (1899–1923)American actress
Harvey Mansfield (born 1932)American political philosopher
David Mansfield (born 1956)American musician

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

Surnames like Mansfield

Also a first name

Mansfield has been given to 513 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1917. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.