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🧑‍💼 A family name 🏡 A place name
Thorpe

Thorpe

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A family name used as a person's last name
  • proper noun
  • /θɔrp/
translation icon : Thorpe
  • My neighbor, Mr. Thorpe, is a retired teacher.
  • Jim Thorpe
  • According to Thorpe
  • Sheriff Thorpe

And Jim and, and you know, Jim Thorpe AKA Bright Path Strong, which is, I mean, what a what a name.

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Examples

  • Shawano County Sheriff Jerry Thorpe was a deputy at the time and on-site during the occupation.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Without him, the Beavers lose a semifinalist for the Chuck Bednarik and Jim Thorpe Awards.

    Blog text (26)

  • Making a headline out of what that man, Thorpe, said.

    Skyhook (2012)

  • Mitch, it's Thorpe, your boss.

    Baywatch (2017)

  • Yeah, well, I think I'll look around, Mr. Thorpe.

    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

  • I know David Thorpe believed we got a steal and the best player in the draft.

    Blog text (10)

  • I have to see Thorpe about some tutoring.

    The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)

  • Mr. Thorpe, I don't see any members of the police commission.

    Changeling (2008)

  • In the decathlon, Thorpe earned 8,412 points and established a world record.

    Blog text (16)

  • Bloom's title itself derives from Hiram Thorpe's words to his son, Jim, when he left for Carlisle in 1904.

    Academic text (2000)

Surface Forms

Thorpe main

Etymology

Thorpe as a family name comes from an old Norse word thorp meaning 'small village'. So a family named Thorpe probably had ancestors who came from or lived in a small village.