Family name origins & meanings
- English : apparently a nickname for a well-turned-out person, from the adjective trim ‘well-equipped’, ‘neatly made’. The word is first attested in the early 16th century, but may well have been in colloquial use much earlier.
- English : from an Old English personal name, Trymma.
- Irish : habitational name, originally de Truim, from a place in County Meath named Trim.