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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe ‘trumpet’.
  • German (Bavaria) : metonymic occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumpe ‘drum’.

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