Mansfield as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mansfield

What is the meaning of the name Mansfield ?

The baby name Mansfield is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈmænz.fɪld/ (respelling: MANZ-fild).

Mansfield is English in Origin.

Mansfield is an English habitational surname used as a given name, taken from the Nottinghamshire market town. The place name is usually traced to the River Maun combined with Old English feld, meaning “open country” or “field,” yielding “field by the Maun.” As a first name, Mansfield emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 18th and 19th centuries, part of the surname-as-given-name trend and often chosen to honor a family line. It reads as traditionally masculine but is occasionally used unisex.

The name carries literary and aristocratic overtones through associations with Mansfield Park and notable bearers of the surname. Spelling variants include Manfield and the rarer Mansfeld (also a distinct German toponymic surname). Short forms may include Manny or Field. Overall, Mansfield blends a polished, old-English feel with a clear geographic meaning rooted in landscape and river.

⚙ Mansfield is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mansfield appears only 26 times in total — found in 11 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.