German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from
the city of Trier on the Mosel, named in Latin as Augusta
Treverorum ‘city of Augustus among the Treveri’, a Celtic
tribal name of uncertain etymology. Compare
Dreyfuss.
Dutch: habitational name from a place so called
in Poppel in Antwerp province.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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