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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.
  • Variant spelling of Irish Trainor.
  • Altered spelling of German Trainer, a habitational name for someone from Train in Bavaria or Trainau in Upper Franconia.

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