Balthrop Family History
Balthrop Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place probably in Cambridgeshire where the surname is recorded in the 17th century. The second element of the placename is a metathesized form of Old English thorp ‘settlement’; the first element is of uncertain origin. The surname is now extinct in the British Isles.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022