Heraldry and the Felde Surname

The last name Felde is another written form of Feld, an English family name. Read literally, Felde points to “A dweller at land free from wood, a field”.

Heraldry and the Felde name

Arms linked to Feld and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

The extra “e” in Felde is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Felde ranked 41,657 in the 2010 US Census, with 522 people answering to the name. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Field and Feild. For the full story, order the Felde surname pack.