A surname and place name, most famously associated with the Hatfield-McCoy feud; also refers to several towns in England and the United States.
Old English place name meaning 'heathland field', from haeth (heath) and feld (open country). The surname derives from people who lived in such places.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud made this surname synonymous with family feuding in American culture, but the name originally just described people who lived near heather-covered fields - a peaceful pastoral origin for a name associated with conflict!
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