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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of German Trem(m)el or Treml, a nickname for a rude man, Bavarian dialect Tremel ‘cudgel’, ‘club’ (from Middle High German drām, trāme ‘beam’, ‘rafter’).

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