English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Warwickshire,
named in Old Norse with topt, Old Danish toft
‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.Scandinavian:
habitational name from any of several farmsteads or place names
derived from Old Norse topt ‘curtilage’, ‘site’, ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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