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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of German Trambauer, a distinguishing name for a farmer (see Bauer) living by the Traun river in Upper Bavaria.
  • German : an unflattering nickname from Middle High German trāme ‘beam’, ‘rafter’ + bur ‘farmer’, denoting a crude peasant.

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