The crofoot Surname
crofoot Name Meaning and History
- Scottish: variant of Crawford.
- English: variant of Crowfoot, a nickname for someone with splayed feet or some other deformity of the foot, from Old English crawe ‘crow’ + fot ‘foot’. In Middle English crou-fot also denoted the buttercup, and it may be from this sense that the name arose, although the reason for its adoption is unclear.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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