Loftus Family History
Loftus Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Loftus in
Cleveland, Lofthouse in West Yorkshire, or Loftsome in East
Yorkshire. All are named from Old Norse lopt ‘loft’, ‘upper
storey’ + hús ‘house’, the last being derived from the
dative plural form, húsum. Houses built with an upper storey
(which was normally used for the storage of produce during the winter)
were a considerable rarity among the ordinary people of the Middle
Ages.Irish: English surname adopted by certain bearers of
the Gaelic surname Ó Lochlainn (see Laughlin) or
Ó Lachtnáin (see Lough).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Loftus Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Loftus families
 146 - 289  49 - 145 |
 1 - 48  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Loftus families
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256 - 509 86 - 255 |
1 - 85 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Loftus families
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Loftus Family Origin
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Loftus Family Occupations
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