The taft Surname
taft Name Meaning and History
English: topographic name or habitational name from a dialect
variant of Old and Middle English toft ‘curtilage’, ‘site’,
‘homestead’, also applied to a low hillock where a homestead used to
be. Compare Toft.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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