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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French trenche, a derivative of trenchier ‘to cut, hack, or slice’ (compare Trench) + the pejorative suffix -ard, hence a metonymic occupational name for a butcher or a nickname for a violent person.

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