Shinfield

English

Etymology

From the Old English personal name sciene (“bright”) + feld (“field”).

Proper noun

Shinfield (countable and uncountable, plural Shinfields)

1. A village and civil parish in Wokingham borough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU7368).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shinfield is the 37483^th most common surname in England, belonging to 87 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shinfield”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears