Feilden Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Some records give Feild; others give Feilden. Both point to the same English family name. Name scholars give the meaning as “Dweller by the open fields”.

Feilden is built on the same root as Feild, with the ending -en. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Arms linked to Feild and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Feilden family name pack.