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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Sicily) : variant of Traina.
  • Southern Italian and Greek (Trainos) : occupational name for a butcher selling goat meat, from Greek traginos ‘goat meat’, from tragi ‘he-goat’, originally a diminutive of classical Greek tragos.

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