Dronfield

English

Etymology

From Old English drān (“drone, male bee”) + feld (“field”).

Proper noun

Dronfield (countable and uncountable, plural Dronfields)

1. A town and civil parish in North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3578).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dronfield is the 13696^th most common surname in England, belonging to 395 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dronfield”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 490.

Anagrams

• old friend