Crofton Family History
Crofton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Crofton for example in Cumbria Greater London (formerly in Kent) Hampshire Lincolnshire Wiltshire and Yorkshire. Most of these are named from Old English croft ‘paddock vegetable garden’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’ but the one in Greater London probably has as its first element Old English cropp ‘swelling mound’ (compare Cropper ) and that in Lincolnshire Old English croh ‘saffron’ (from Latin crocus).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022