Clipping of Christopher.

Topher

1. A male given name, a shortened form of Christopher.
   • 2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, page 63:

     No Carl, but there was Jan Teverer - the Christian lady - and Mike, the father of the three-year-old IVF triplets - Taylor, Topher and Talullah. ('I hate them all, just by name,' said Amy, a grave judge of anything trendy. […]'

• Thorpe, pother, tephro-, thorpe