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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a medieval personal name or byname often bestowed on a child born after the death of a sibling, from German Trost ‘comfort’, ‘consolation’ (Middle High German trōst, ‘confidence’, ‘trust’).
  • Dutch : variant of Troost.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from modern German Trost ‘comfort’, ‘consolation’.

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