Satterfield
An English place-name surname meaning someone from or near a patch of marshy or soft land.
The #2,577 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 22,017 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Satterfield is an English locational surname built from a field-name. The first element is likely related to an old word for marshy, boggy, or sodden ground, while the second is simply "field," meaning open land or a cultivated area. Taken together, the name most likely referred to a place characterized by wet or soft ground.
History
The surname appears in English-speaking records as a habitational name, then spread more widely through Britain and especially to North America. Like many locational surnames, it would originally have identified a person by the place where they lived or had come from. In modern usage it is most common in the United States.
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Fun fact
Because it ends in -field, the name looks straightforwardly agricultural, but the first element probably points to terrain rather than farming.