Throop Family History
Throop Name Meaning
English: from Middle English throp ‘village hamlet farmstead’ (Old Norse Old English throp ‘secondary settlement’). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in such a settlement or habitational for someone from Throop in Hampshire Throope in Wiltshire Thrup in Oxfordshire or any of the places called Thrupp in Berkshire Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire. Compare Thorpe .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022