Family name origins & meanings
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Tippe, a metonymic occupational name for a tub maker, from Low German (also Rhineland) tibbe, tippe ‘wooden tub’, ‘vat’; or of Tibbe, from Tiebbo, a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German diot ‘people’ + brand ‘sword’ or berht ‘shining’.