Frequency: (123)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: from a short form of the medieval personal name Tebald, Tibalt (see Theobald).
2. North German: from Low German tippe, tibbe ‘wooden pail’, ‘small tub’.
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