what is the meaning of the surname Tibbs?

Question

what are its origins

Answer 1

"brave people"

tibbs
English: patronymic from a short form of the medieval personal name Tibalt, Tebald (see Theobald).

Theobald
English and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested element þeudo- ‘people’, ‘race’ + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’. The English surname represents a learned form, re-created from French Théobald; the common medieval form of the name was Tebald, Tibalt (Old French Teobaud, Tibaut).