Family name origins & meanings
- English (Midlands) : possibly a topographical name from Middle English tufte, tuffe ‘clump of trees or bushes’. This is an element of minor place names and field names in various counties.
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse tupt ‘site’, ‘lot’.
- Possibly an altered spelling of South German Duft, from a topographic name meaning ‘swamp’, ‘moor’.