# Croft (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/croft/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English, from the common noun croft, and from places named Croft.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 13,047 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,766 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 23,664 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.7% (12,702 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun croft (“small piece of land”). * Also as an English surname, variant of Craft. * As a Danish, Swedish, German and Jewish surname, Americanized from Kraft. * The place in Leicestershire is from Old English cræft (“device”). Also compare Kroft.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Croft in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 8.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Similar surnames

Craft, Crofoot, Crafton, Crofts, Crafts, Corbett, Crabtree, Corbitt.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.