as a Last Name
- 7,876
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Loftus
Meaning & Origins
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.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,876
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Loftus per capita
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