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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hop ‘valley among hills’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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