Trump (surname)

Trump is a German surname. It derives from a word for "drum."

Bahlow (1982) derives the German surname Trump from a Bavarian word for "drum" (Middle High German ). Trump is a contemporary German surname (comparatively rare, with 382 phone book entries as of 2016), with concentrations in the Cologne area, the Bad Dürkheim district (includes Kallstadt), Gifhorn district and the Schwäbisch Hall/Ansbach region.

The German Verein für Computergenealogie traces the ancestry of Frederick Trump to 18th-century Bobenheim am Berg in the German Palatinate. From there, Johannes Trump (1789-1835) moved to the nearby village of Kallstadt. His son Johannes Christian Trump (1829-1877) married Katharina Kober from Wachenheim, and one of their children, Friedrich (later called Frederick), emigrated to New York in 1885.

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