At a Glance: Name: Topsy – Origin: English (literary, from a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852) – Gender: Girl – Pronunciation: TAHP-see
Topsy is an English (literary, from a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852) girl's name. It appears in our list of 200+ Gorgeous Girl Names That End in Ie or Y (Totally Cute and Feminine).
Meaning & Origin of Topsy
Origin: English (literary, from a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852).
A common claim: Often glossed as meaning 'topknot' or as evoking someone who 'just grew' Actually: There's no attested link between 'Topsy' and 'topknot'; the character-derived idiom actually refers to something growing without deliberate planning ('I s'pect I growed'), not to a hairstyle.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Topsy
Phonetic: TAHP-see IPA: /ˈtɑːpsi/
Popularity of Topsy
Topsy doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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