Northrip Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Arms linked to Northrop and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Spelled Northrip, the surname still points back to Northrop. At root, the name means “One who came from Northorpe (the northern farm), in Lincolnshire”.

Records show Northrip as one of the forms Northrop took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Related forms: Northrup. The 2010 census count for Northrip in the United States was 316, good for rank 63,218. That puts it inside the top 100,000 US surnames.

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