The crofton Surname
crofton Name Meaning and History
English: habitational name from any of the various places called
Crofton, for example in Cumbria, Greater London (formerly in Kent),
Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire. Most of these
are named from Old English croft ‘paddock’, ‘vegetable garden’
+ tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but the one in Greater
London probably has as its first element Old English cropp
‘swelling’, ‘mound’ (compare Cropper) and that in Lincolnshire
Old English croh ‘saffron’ (from Latin crocus).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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