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The loft Surname

loft Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English lofte ‘upper chamber’, ‘attic’, possibly bestowed on a household servant who worked in an upper chamber, or used in the same sense as Loftus.
  2. Danish: habitational name from a place called Loft.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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loft Family Facts

Distribution of loft Families in the US in 1920
Number of loft families
 12-22
 5-11		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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