A surname, most notably associated with American actor Johnny Depp.
German surname meaning 'deep' or 'depth', from Middle High German tiuf. The name likely originated as a topographic surname for someone living in a deep valley or hollow, or possibly as a nickname referring to someone's profound nature or deep voice.
While Depp is primarily known as a celebrity surname today, it belongs to a fascinating category of German surnames that describe landscape features. Many German immigrants to America carried such descriptive names that painted pictures of their ancestral homelands - valleys, hills, streams, and forests encoded in family names.
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