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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German trūt ‘dear’, ‘beloved’, or from a short form of a personal name formed with the same word. Compare Draudt.
  • Eight members of a family called Traut arrived in PA in 1719. One branch (known as <xref>Trout</xref>) moved to NC at the end of the 18th century.

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