Feilds Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Feilds is best understood together with Fields: both are English spellings of a single family name. In origin, the name means “Dweller by the open fields”.

• The same family of names includes Field and Feild.
• Records show Feilds as one of the forms Fields took over time.
• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

Feilds coat of arms

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Feilds, so the heraldry linked to Fields is a starting point, not an automatic right. Want more than a summary? See the Feilds family name pack.