Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Althorp, a habitational name from Althorpe in Lincolnshire or Althorp in Northamptonshire.
- Possibly also an Americanized form of German Althoff ‘old farm’.
- Thomas Altop was transported from London to VA aboard the Thornton in 1772. This surname is recorded in the tax records of Harrison County, VA, in 1802.