How common is the surname Lofton?

13,900 people in the United States had the surname Lofton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,212 Americans. It ranked 2,590th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Lofton?

Cirroc Lofton, American actor, followed by Chris Lofton.

Where is the surname Lofton most common?

Wikidata records people named Lofton in the United States.

How do you pronounce Lofton?

Lofton is /ˈlɒftən/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Lofton getting more or less common?

More common. 13,212 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,900 in 2010, up 5.2%.

The surname Lofton

A Norse place surname, carried by 13,900 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈlɒftən/ 2 syllables Soundex L135

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lofton is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

Unexplained. Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Lofton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 13,900 people named Lofton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,212 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,212.

#2,590

rank among US surnames

13,900

people in 2010

4.7

per 100,000 Americans

+5.2%

change since 2000 (was #2,507)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,581	Fairchild	13,993	22,064
#2,583	Ouellette	13,984	22,078
#2,584	Beam	13,972	22,097
#2,585	High	13,961	22,115
#2,586	Sebastian	13,934	22,158
#2,587	Donohue	13,919	22,182
#2,588	Moeller	13,915	22,188

Who is named Lofton

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

56% of people named Lofton identified as Black (not Hispanic), 37% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 56%
White (not Hispanic) 37%
Two or more races 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Loftons

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Cirroc Lofton
American actor, born 1978
Chris Lofton
American basketball player (born 1986)
Zach Lofton
American basketball player (born 1992)
Kenny Lofton
American baseball player, born 1967
Euphemia Haynes
American mathematician (1890–1980)
Sapphire
American author and poet, born 1950

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Lofting

Surnames that sound like Lofton

Loftin

Lofton has the Soundex code L135, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L135.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lofton come from?: Unexplained. Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
How common is the surname Lofton?: 13,900 people in the United States had the surname Lofton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,212 Americans. It ranked 2,590th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lofton?: In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Lofton identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 37% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Lofton?: Cirroc Lofton, American actor, followed by Chris Lofton.
Where is the surname Lofton most common?: Wikidata records people named Lofton in the United States.
How do you pronounce Lofton?: Lofton is /ˈlɒftən/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Lofton?: Lofton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Lofton getting more or less common?: More common. 13,212 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,900 in 2010, up 5.2%.
What are other spellings of Lofton?: Lofting.