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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English (chiefly Northumbrian) and Scottish : variant, altered by folk etymology, of Trumble, on theory that it denoted a nickname for a man thought to be strong and brave enough to turn back a charging bull, from Middle English turn(en) ‘to turn’ + bul(l)e ‘bull’.

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