Meaning & History
Toph is the name of a character in Avatar: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some regions), an American animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008. Toph was written as 北方拓芙, giving her name the meaning "expanding lotus". The name itself is not a genuine Chinese name, and may have been intended as a pun on the English word "tough".