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trainer Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a trapper, from an agent derivative of Middle English trayne, Old French traine ‘guile’, ‘trickery’, ‘snare’, ‘trap’. Compare Train.
  2. Variant spelling of Irish Trainor.
  3. Altered spelling of German Trainer, a habitational name for someone from Train in Bavaria or Trainau in Upper Franconia.

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Distribution of trainer Families in the US in 1920
Number of trainer families
 59-116
 20-58
 1-19
 0
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