English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Heap Bridge in
Lancashire, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or
heap, from Old English heap ‘heap’, ‘mound’, ‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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