Passfield

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name Passa + feld (“field”).

Proper noun

Passfield (countable and uncountable, plural Passfields)

1. A village and civil parish in East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8234).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Passfield is the 11466^th most common surname in England, belonging to 502 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Passfield”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears