As someone already posted it can be the Americanized version of Jewish Blumfield
However, according to Ancestry.Com it can be the English Norman of the name Blundeville.
The best way to know your heritage is to trace your family starting with your parents and work back one generation at a time.
See the links below for educational purposes
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...
http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...
My last name is bloomfield and i am told it is a strong jewish name..can i check for jewish roots?
The spelling was undoubtedly changed on entry to America. The original spelling would be Blumfeld--field of flowers. If no one of your parents' generation or earlier is available to help, census records might do. Records of the 1930 census and earlier are now available.
Reply:Easiest thing to do is to get your grandparents birth and death certificates and then there parents and on and on. Not only do you get to find out about your last name, you also get to build your family tree.
Reply:Have a look at the link posted below
http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=%26amp;...
hope this helps.
Reply:Try asking parents (if they're still alive) and/or relatives. Someone should know whether or not your forebears were Jewish. Other than that you'll likely have to do a full genealogy on your family and hope that there's some evidence that your great-great- etc. were married in a synagogue, or that you find a headstone with a Jewish star on it, etc.
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My family name is bloomfield or I believed it to be for years however when I looked at records my Grandfathers real name was Bloemsma and he had taken an english version of this dutch Jewish name. All of his siblings took a version of the dutch name in various forms Bloom, Bloem, blomfeld and bloomfield. All of which derived from Bloemsma in our case. it is definitely Jewish in origin even if that origin was way back.
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