Hartsfield
A likely English habitational surname meaning “from the hart’s field” or “deer field.”
The #7,898 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 73,651 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Hartsfield is best understood as an English locational surname built from Middle English hart, meaning a stag or male deer, and field, meaning an open piece of land or pasture. The name would originally have identified someone who lived at or came from a place described as a “hart’s field,” whether a genuine settlement name or a local topographic description. In some cases, surnames of this type arose independently in more than one place.
History
The surname is most likely English in formation, though it is not especially common in medieval records and may have arisen in several localities. As with many locational surnames, it later became fixed as a hereditary family name and was carried to North America through English-speaking migration. The modern U.S. concentration suggests a surname that remained relatively uncommon but stable in use.
Origin
Regions
Variant spellings
Fun fact
Surnames built from animal names plus landscape words often started as descriptive place-names before becoming family names.