Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A surname. · A surname from English. · A surname from German. · Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).
The surname has two sources. * English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”). * German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections) * The place in Baltimore county was named after settler Simeon Van Trump.
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