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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southern) : topographic name for someone living on the banks of the Tarrant river in Dorset, of which the name is of the same origin as Trent.
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Toráin (see Torrens).

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