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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a dreamer, from Middle High German troum ‘dream’.
  • from Bavarian Traum (standard German Tramm) ‘rafter’, ‘beam’, a nickname for a crude man. Compare Trammell.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Traum ‘dream’.

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