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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from an agent derivative of Low German treden ‘to tread or stomp’, probably a (derogatory) nickname for a peasant, a dancer, or someone who worked the bellows of an organ.
  • German : topographic name from a noun derivative of Low German Trede. Compare Tretter.

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