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The trotter Surname

trotter Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a messenger, from an agent derivative of Middle English trot(en) ‘to walk fast’ (Old French troter, of Germanic origin, akin to 2 below).
  2. German: occupational name for a grape-treader, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’. The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The trotter name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the trotter family name as far back in history as possible.

trotter Family Facts

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Distribution of trotter Families in the US in 1920
Number of trotter families
 86-170
 29-85		 1-28
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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