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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Saxony, Vogtland) : habitational name for someone from Trogen.
  • Dutch : possibly from a derivative of Middle Dutch troc ‘trough’, ‘tub’, hence an occupational name for a maker of such items.

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