Brumfield
A surname that likely began as a place-based name meaning “from Brumfield” or “from the broom-covered field.”
The #3,027 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 26,072 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Brumfield is most likely an English locational surname. It appears to be built from Middle English brum or broom, the shrub, plus field, meaning an open area or cleared piece of land. In that sense, the name would have referred either to someone living near a field where broom grew, or to a person from a place called Brumfield or something similar.
History
The surname is best understood as an English place-name style formation, though the exact source locality is not securely identified. In later centuries it appears mainly in English-speaking countries, especially the United States, where it is now relatively uncommon but established. Like many locational surnames, it may have arisen independently in more than one family line.
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Fun fact
“Broom” was a common medieval landscape word and turns up in many English surnames and place names, often pointing to scrubby ground rather than a modern broom.