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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an Americanized form of German Trittel, from a Germanic personal name formed with thrud ‘strength’ (compare Trautwein), which in medieval times became confused with Middle High German trūt ‘dear’, ‘beloved’.

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