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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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