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Trout

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English trowte ‘trout’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling the fish.
  • Altered spelling of German Traut.

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