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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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of trainer Families in the US in 1920
Number of trainer families
 59-116
 20-58		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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