Wakefield

See also: wakefield

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪkfiːld/

Proper noun

Wakefield

2. An industrial city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England; traditionally a centre for the cloth and coal industries.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.
4. The prison in Wakefield, established 1594.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A ghost town in Washington County, Alabama.
   2. An unincorporated community in Richland County, Illinois.
   3. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Indiana.
   4. A minor city in Clay County, Kansas.
   5. An unincorporated community in Spencer County, Kentucky.
   6. An unincorporated community in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
   7. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
      • 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

        Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.

   8. A city and township in Gogebic County, Michigan.
   9. A township in Stearns County, Minnesota.
   10. A city in Dixon County and Wayne County, Nebraska.
   11. A township in Dixon County, Nebraska.
   12. A town in Carroll County, New Hampshire.
   13. A neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.
   14. A neighbourhood of Zebulon, Wake County, North Carolina.
   15. An unincorporated community in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio.
   16. A census-designated place in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   17. A village in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island.
   18. A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
   19. A town in Sussex County, Virginia.
   20. A neighbourhood of Washington, D.C..
   21. A ghost town in the village of Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
6. A number of places elsewhere:
   1. A suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
   2. A local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia; in full, Wakefield Regional Council.
   3. A parish and community therein, in New Brunswick, Canada.
   4. A village in La Pêche municipality, Quebec, Canada.
   5. A settlement in Jamaica.
   6. A settlement in Tasman district, South Island, New Zealand.

Translations

city

• Marathi: वेकफील्ड (vekphīlḍa)
• Russian: Уэ́йкфилд m (Uéjkfild)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wakefield is the 2,472^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 14,587 individuals. Wakefield is most common among White (80.87%) and Black (13.40%) individuals.