Lodge
A surname usually from a lodge or small cottage, especially one near a forest or estate.
The #7,394 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 68,595 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lodge is generally a topographic or locational surname for someone who lived by, or worked in, a lodge: a small house, cottage, or gatehouse. Middle English forms such as logge go back to Old French loge, meaning a hut, shelter, or lodge. The name could also attach to people from places called Les Loges, especially in Normandy.
History
English records show Lodge as a residence-based surname rather than a family-name formed from an occupation. Lower and later surname writers also connect it with Norman place-names such as Les Loges, which helped spread the form in England after the medieval period. The surname appears in several spellings in historical sources, but Lodge became the standard modern form.
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Fun fact
In older English usage, a “lodge” could mean more than a woodland hut; it could also refer to a modest manor house or estate outbuilding.
From the historical record
“Louis. LODGE. A temporary building ; some- times a more permanent one. In many instances a manor-house of small preten- sions is called a Court-Lodge. Fr. logp, a lodge or cabm, particularly in Forest dis- tricts. LODGES. " Les Loges" Is the name of several localities in Normandy. LOFT. LOFFT. From residence in a…”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom