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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : possibly a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German trennen ‘to separate’, ‘to divide’, or alternatively a nickname for a bowls player, from Middle Low German trenden ‘to play with balls’, ‘to bowl’.

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