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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English trull ‘slattern’, ‘prostitute’.
  • German : nickname for a street entertainer or a cheat, from a noun derivative of Middle High German trüllen ‘to juggle’, also ‘to cheat’.
  • German (also Trüll) : from a short form of the female personal name Gertrud (see Trude).

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