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toft Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire, named in Old Norse with topt, Old Danish toft ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.
  2. Scandinavian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or place names derived from Old Norse topt ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of toft Families in the US in 1920
Number of toft families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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