Renfield as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Renfield

What is the meaning of the name Renfield ?

The baby name Renfield is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈrɛn.fiːld/ (REN-feeld).

Renfield is English in Origin.

An English-language surname turned given name, Renfield likely combines field (Old English feld, "open country, pasture") with a first element of uncertain origin. Explanations range from a link to wren, the small songbird, yielding "wren's field," to association with the medieval forename Reyn/Reyn- (from Reynold, ultimately Germanic ragin "counsel"), giving "Reyn's field." In some cases it may be an anglicized form of the German place-surname Reinfeld, interpreted as "pure/clean field" or "field by the boundary ridge."

As a given name it is very rare, but it became widely recognizable through Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), where R. M. Renfield is the memorable asylum patient, lending the name a Gothic, macabre aura. Contemporary usage appears occasionally in Anglophone countries, often as a distinctive, gender-neutral surname name. Short forms include Ren and Renny; variant spellings and cognates include Renfeld, Reinfeld, and Wrenfield.

⚙ Renfield is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Renfield appears only 4 times in total — found in 4 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.