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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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