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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a trumpeter, messenger, or herald, Middle High German trum(m)eter, trumpter.
  • German : habitational name from any of four estates so named in the Rhineland.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a trumpeter from an agent derivative of trompet ‘trumpet’.

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