English: habitational name from Northorpe in the former East Riding
of Yorkshire, named with Old Norse norðr or Old English
norþ ‘north’ + þorp or þrop ‘dependent
outlying farmstead’, ‘hamlet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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