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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a medieval personal name, formed with Middle High German trūt ‘beloved’ + man ‘man’, or from an older stem, Germanic thrud ‘strength’ (Old Norse thrudr ‘divine being’), from which several personal names were formed.

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