Trenkamp Family History
- Trenkamp Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of German Threnkamp, a topographic name for someone living by a hummocky field, from Middle Low German trint ‘round’, ‘hump’ + kamp ‘enclosed field’, ‘domain’. The element trint occurs frequently in field and place names, such as Drentwede (Hannover), Trendelenburg (Westphalia). German: perhaps also a topographic name from Middle High German tren ‘drone’, ‘bumblebee’ + kamp ‘field’, ‘domain’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,052 Historical Documents with Trenkamp on Ancestry
- 1,994 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 985 Census and Voter Lists
- 135 Military Records
- 162 Immigration Records
- 3,776 Member Trees
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Number of Trenkamp families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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