Bontoft Family History
Bontoft Name Meaning
from a lost place called Bontoft in Hogsthorpe (Lincs) which is recorded as Bountoft in 1294 Bontoft in 1345. The place-name may be from Old Scandinavian bóndi ‘peasant freeholder’ + toft ‘house-plot’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016