English (West Midlands): habitational name from a place in the West
Midlands, recorded in Domesday Book as Tibintone, probably
‘settlement (Old English tun) associated with Tibba’,
an Old English personal name of obscure origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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