Tippinge Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

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

Family name meaning

Tippinge is a spelling of the English surname Tipping. At root, the name means “The son of Tibba, pet forms of Theobald (people bold)”.

The extra “e” in Tippinge is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

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