About the Tharp Surname

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Family name meaning

Search old registers for Tharp and you will soon meet Thorpe too. The family name meaning is “outlying farm”, the same as for Thorpe.

Tharp is listed among the recognised spellings of Thorpe. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Related forms: Thorp. 13,757 Americans were listed as Tharp in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 5,000 American surnames.

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