English: habitational name from Topcliff in North Yorkshire or
Topcliffe in West Yorkshire. The first was named from Toppa (an
unattested Old English personal name) + clif ‘cliff’, ‘bank’,
‘slope’, and the second from Old Norse topt ‘enclosure’ + Old
English clif.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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