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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English lofte ‘upper chamber’, ‘attic’, possibly bestowed on a household servant who worked in an upper chamber, or used in the same sense as Loftus.
  • Danish : habitational name from a place called Loft.

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