Lucraft Surname

1,194,481st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 198 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Lucraft Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Leacroft,' a township in the parish of Cannock, Staffordshire The suffix -croft is frequently found as -craft; v. Craft A novel published several years ago by Messrs. Besant and Rice, entitled The Case of Mr.

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Lucraft Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1581:352,64625,413
Australia191:1,420,82673,129
South Africa91:6,019,745157,966
Scotland61:892,30328,047
Philippines31:33,746,074302,898
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England661:369,32422,972
Wales11:1,568,41619,290
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States141:3,587,049158,810

Lucraft Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Leacroft,' a township in the parish of Cannock, Staffordshire The suffix -croft is frequently found as -craft; v. Craft A novel published several years ago by Messrs. Besant and Rice, entitled The Case of Mr. Lucraft, has helped to give prominence to this surname. There can be little doubt that all the above forms are variants of Leycraft or Leacroft. Of course smaller spots than Leacroft in Staffordshire may have originated the surname, as the term leacroft would be a common place-word; v. Lea and Croft.

Francis Leycrofte, or Leighcrofte, London, 1584: Register of the University of Oxford.

1601. Buried — Sara, d. Samson Lecraft, armorer: St. Peter, Cornhill.

1607. Baptised — Richard, s. Sampson Leycrafte, brasier: ibid.

1608. Buried — Samson Leycrofte, brasier: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Belonging to Lucraft [craft is a North. English and Scot. form of Old English croft, a small field, enclosure: the first element is poss. the pers. name Luc or Luke]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Lucraft Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lucraft Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Lucraft is borne by more people in England than any other country or territory. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Lucraft? popularity and diffusion

The surname Lucraft is the 1,194,481st most commonly occurring last name on a global scale, held by around 1 in 36,805,787 people. The surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 83 percent of Lucraft live; 83 percent live in Northern Europe and 83 percent live in British Isles.

This surname is most frequently occurring in England, where it is carried by 158 people, or 1 in 352,646. In England Lucraft is primarily found in: Greater London, where 23 percent are found, Essex, where 16 percent are found and Cambridgeshire, where 9 percent are found. Without taking into account England this last name exists in 7 countries. It is also common in Australia, where 10 percent are found and South Africa, where 5 percent are found.

Lucraft Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Lucraft has changed through the years. In England the number of people who held the Lucraft surname expanded 239 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it fell 93 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Lucraft Last Name Statistics demography

Lucraft earn more than fifty percent more than the average income. In South Africa they earn 53.33% more than the national average, earning R 364,368 per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Luckraft93247/
Loucraft9342/
Leucraft930/
Luckcraft882/
Laudcraft880/
Locraft8664/
Lucroft860/
Luccroft800/
Ligcroft671/
Loocroft670/
Lucrow622/
Locraw621/

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