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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : habitational name from a place so named; the first element, Tran-, may be from trane ‘crane’, or a word meaning ‘someone from Trøndelag’, while the second element, -um, is from Old Norse heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’.

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