English: habitational name from a place in Cumbria
(Westmorland). The place name is recorded in Domesday Book as
Lupetun, and probably derives from an Old English personal name
Hluppa (of uncertain origin) + Old English tun
‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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