Traynor (surname)

Traynor (also Trainor, Trainer, Treanor, Trener, Trenor, Trinor, Tronor, Trynor, Triner, Trinner, MacTreanor, MacCreanor, and McCrainor) is a surname of Irish or English origin.

The Irish name descends from "Threin Fhir" which means "strong man" in Irish Gaelic. It is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters compiled in the years 1632-1636 at the convent of Donegal, by the chief author, Michael O'Clery, a monk of the order of St. Francis as having descended from the Colla Dá Crich. In the Census of Ireland of 1659, from the poll money ordinance, the census describes the most common "Irish" names of County Monaghan and lists McTrenor among them citing 30 Irish McTrenor households. The citation of McTrenor as an “Irish Name” during the late plantation period discounts assertions that the name was brought to Ireland at that time.

Common in Monaghan, and to a lesser extant throughout Ulster, the name is associated with Kelley, Madden and other Ui Maine ancestry. Legends from Clogher, Tyrone, Northern Ireland associate the name with Aedh Mac Cairthinn, the first Bishop of Clogher who was called Saint Patrick's "strong man".

All male Traynors conductingY-DNA genealogy tests to date have traced their Y-DNA to z2961+ m222- R-FGC6562+ as a adjunct branch of the Ui Maine haplogroup descending from Máine Mór.

The English version of the name may descend from the old English word "trayne" which means to trap or snare and may have been the name for a hunter. The English surname may have been brought to Ireland through English settlers. The name was recorded in the 13th century on tax records in County Durham and in Yorkshire as well. Yorkshire was probably one of the first strongholds for the English family branch.

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