Northop Family History
Northop Name Meaning
perhaps for someone who lived ‘north up (in the village)’ (Middle English north + up). variant of Northrop with dissimilation of the sequence r...r. Compare Thomas Northrope 1599 Water Northrop 1607 (Bassingbourn Cambs) with Eliz Northop 1622 in
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016