Lofton

13,295 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lofton in the 2020 census, making it the 2,646th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,295
Rank: 2,646th
How common: 1 in 22,500
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lofton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 55.2%
White, not Hispanic 34.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lofton

Cirroc Lofton (born 1978)American actor

People named Lofton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lofton

Also a first name

Lofton has been given to 695 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.