Fieldings Family Crest & Name History

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Fieldings, so the heraldry linked to Fielding is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Fieldings and Fielding are two spellings with one history. Name scholars give the meaning as “dweller in open country”.

The extra ending in Fieldings is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Fielding's family. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Felding.

Get the complete Fieldings report, with a museum-style coat of arms.