Grandfield is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 10 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Grandfield
No. of characters: 10
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

Lastname Grandfield is a variation of Grenville. The Grenvilles of Wootton, county of Bucks, descend from Richard de Grenville, who came in with the Conqueror in the train of Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville and Buckingham, whose son in law he was. The name, which has been variously written, Greynevile, Greinville, Granville, etc., and latinized De Granavilla, was doubtless borrowed from Granville, the well-known seaport of Lower Normandy. The Grenvilles of the West are of the same stock. George G. of Stowe, in Cornwall, the poetical Lord Lansdowne, writing in 1711 to his nephew, Wm. Henry, Earl of Bath, says: "Your ancestors for at least five hundred years never made any alliances, male or female, out of the western counties: thus there is hardly a gentleman either in Cornwall or Devon, but has some of your blood, as you of theirs." Quart. The G.'s of the Buckinghamshire Stowe could boast of a still longer territorial stability.

The more correct form of the name is Granville, the spelling now and anciently used for the town. George Grenville, in his letter to his kinsman Charles, Lord Lansdowne, on the bombardment of the town of Granville, in Normandy, by the English fleet, alludes to the arms of Gran ville as till then preserved over one of the gates of that town:-
"Those arms which for nine centuries (?) have braved
The wrath of time, on antique stone engraved,
Now torn by mortars, stand yet undefaced
On nobler trophies, by thy valour raised.
Safe on thy eagle's wingsthey soar above
The rage of war or thunder to remove;
Borne by the bird of Cæsar and of Jove."

The allusion here is to his lordship's creation as a Count of the Empire, the family arms to be thenceforth borne on the breast of the imperial eagle. It seems singular that the noble family should have tolerated the spelling Grenville, though Clarendon goes even further, and writes Greenvil, passim. A still grosser corruption brings the great town (grande ville) to the level of a Green-field. There is, however, a locality in Normandy which appears really to have experienced this metamorphosis, for of another Granville there runs a proverb:-
"Granville grand villain!
Une égliseet un moulin,
On voit Granville tout à plein."

The form of the Greenfield. A Lincolnshire hamlet. Also a corruption of Grenville or Granville.

Grandfield is form of Granville. See Grenville - The Grenvilles of Wootton, county of Bucks, descend from Richard de Grenville, who came in with the Conqueror in the train of Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville and Buckingham, whose son in law he was. The name, which has been variously written, Greynevile, Greinville, Granville, etc., and latinized De Granavilla, was doubtless borrowed from Granville, the well-known seaport of Lower Normandy. The Grenvilles of the West are of the same stock. George G. of Stowe, in Cornwall, the poetical Lord Lansdowne, writing in 1711 to his nephew, Wm. Henry, Earl of Bath, says: "Your ancestors for at least five hundred years never made any alliances, male or female, out of the western counties: thus there is hardly a gentleman either in Cornwall or Devon, but has some of your blood, as you of theirs." Quart. The G.'s of the Buckinghamshire Stowe could boast of a still longer territorial stability.

The more correct form of the name is Granville, the spelling now and anciently used for the town. George Grenville, in his letter to his kinsman Charles, Lord Lansdowne, on the bombardment of the town of Granville, in Normandy, by the English fleet, alludes to the arms of Gran ville as till then preserved over one of the gates of that town:-
"Those arms which for nine centuries (?) have braved
The wrath of time, on antique stone engraved,
Now torn by mortars, stand yet undefaced
On nobler trophies, by thy valour raised.
Safe on thy eagle's wingsthey soar above
The rage of war or thunder to remove;
Borne by the bird of Cæsar and of Jove."

The allusion here is to his lordship's creation as a Count of the Empire, the family arms to be thenceforth borne on the breast of the imperial eagle. It seems singular that the noble family should have tolerated the spelling Grenville, though Clarendon goes even further, and writes Greenvil, passim. A still grosser corruption brings the great town (grande ville) to the level of a Green-field. There is, however, a locality in Normandy which appears really to have experienced this metamorphosis, for of another Granville there runs a proverb:-
"Granville grand villain!
Une égliseet un moulin,
On voit Granville tout à plein."

Grandfield is a variant form of Greenfield. Dweller at the verdant field or pasture.

The variant form of Greenfield. Green field.

How popular is Grandfield?

Grandfield is common in United States, England, South Africa.

Grandfield is ranked 315146 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Grandfields plummeted by 10.34 per cent to 442 since 2000 and slipped by 6282 spots and ranked at 47878. The last name was found in around 2 per million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 94.12 95.33
Hispanic or Latino 2.71 2.64
Grandfield is an uncommon family name, few people in United States and Anguilla have the last name. Around 1190 people have been found who wears Grandfield as their family name. Grandfield is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with hundreds of Grandfield:
46,418 United States642
20,113 England225
34,819 South Africa138
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
42,011 Canada75
31,907 Australia69
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
14,239 Wales13
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
92,692 Belgium8

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