Family name origins & meanings
- English (chiefly West Midlands) : nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trow(e), trew(e) ‘faithful’, ‘steadfast’.
- English : variant of Tree, from Middle English trow, trew.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow ‘trough’, ‘hollow’.
- Translated form of French Jetté (see Jette). Trow represents the French Canadian pronunciation of English ‘throw’.