Tift as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tift

What is the meaning of the name Tift ?

The baby name Tift is a Female name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /tɪft/ ("TIFT", rhymes with "gift").

Tift is English in Origin.

Tift is a transferred English surname with Scandinavian roots. It derives from Middle English toft, from Old Norse topt/toft, denoting a homestead or house-plot by a field, so the name carries the sense of "homestead, dwelling site." Spelling has long varied; documented forms include Tifft and Tifte, with cognates Toft and Tofte in England and Scandinavia. Though sometimes visually close to the English word tiff ("petty quarrel"), the surname is etymologically unrelated.

As a given name, Tift is rare and chiefly American, adopted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a family-honor or place-linked choice - especially in Georgia, where the surname is memorialized in Tift County and the city of Tifton (after industrialist Henry Harding Tift; related is politician and founder Nelson Tift). Contemporary use is sparse but steady, heard for boys more often than girls, and appreciated for its crisp, one-syllable Southern surname style.

⚙ Tift is a genuine rarity. In all, it appears just 1 time, across 1 country.