Mansfield Family History

English: habitational name from a place so named in Nottinghamshire. The placename means ‘open land by the river Maun’ from the river name Maun (which may take its name from a hill named with Old English mamme ‘teat’) + Old English feld ‘open country’.

Irish (Waterford): when not an importation of 1 above this is an altered form of the Norman name de Manville (see Mandeville).

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Mansfeld a habitational name from a place so called in Saxony.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): probably also an English surname (see 1 above) adopted for a like-sounding Jewish name in some other European language.