Trump (surname)

Trump is a surname of English and German origin:

an English surname derived from Old French Trompeor "maker of trumpets" (modern surnames Trump and Trumper). Recorded in the 1270s in the forms Trumpur, Trumpe and Trump.
a German surname, from a word for "drum"; notable as the surname of American entrepreneurs Frederick Trump, Fred Trump and Donald Trump.^[1]

German surname

Bahlow (1982) derives the German surname Trump from a Bavarian word for "drum" (Middle High German trumpe).^[2] 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.^[3]

Trump family

Blair (2001) traces the ancestry of Frederick Trump to 17th-century Kallstadt in the German Palatinate. An itinerant lawyer called Hanns Drumpf is recorded there for 1608. In the late 17th century, one Johan Philip Trump was a winegrower in Kallstadt and a member of the local governing class.^[1] Frederick Trump (previously called Friedrich Trump) was the son of Johannes Trump by his marriage to Katharina Kober, and was born in 1869 in Kallstadt, at the time part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He emigrated to New York in 1885, illegally.^[4]

Frederick Trump (1869–1918), German-born American businessman, father of Fred and John Trump
Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880–1966), German-born American real estate developer, wife and later widow of Frederick Trump, mother of Fred and John Trump and founder of The Trump Organization
- Fred Trump (1905–1999), American real estate developer, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Trump, father of Donald Trump
  - Maryanne Trump Barry (born 1937), Senior Judge of the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, daughter of Fred Trump and sister of Donald Trump.
  - Donald Trump (born 1946), President-elect of the United States, American business magnate, investor, author, television personality, and politician, son of Fred Trump
  - Ivana Trump (born 1949), Czech athlete and model, ex-wife of Donald Trump
    - Donald Trump, Jr. (born 1977), American businessman, son of Donald and Ivana Trump
    - Ivanka Trump (born 1981), American businesswoman, author and former model, daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump
    - Eric Trump (born 1984), American businessman and philanthropist, son of Donald and Ivana Trump
  - Marla Maples (born 1963) Actress and television personality, ex-wife of Donald Trump
    - Tiffany Trump (born 1993) Heiress, singer, internet celebrity, and model, daughter of Donald and Marla Trump
  - Melania Trump (born 1970), Slovenian model and businesswoman, wife of Donald Trump
    - Barron Trump (born 2004) son of Donald and Melania Trump
- John G. Trump (1907–1985), American high-voltage engineer and physicist, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Trump, uncle of Donald Trump

English surname

Harvey Trump (born 1968), English cricketer
Judd Trump (born 1989), English snooker player

Other

Walter Trump, German mathematician
William Trump (1923–2009), USCG hero and namesake of the USCGC William Trump

Pseudonyms

Kelly Trump (born 1970), German pornographic actress

References

^ ^a ^b Gwenda Blair, The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire (2001), p. 26. See also. "Why Donald Trump trumps Donald Drumpf". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
^ Bahlow: Deutsches Namenslexikon (1982). MHG trumpe, trumbe, trume could mean either "trumpet" or "drum". Lexer, Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch (1872-1878) records variants in d- (drumme, drume, drumpe) under the meaning "drum",
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^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3479129/How-Donald-Trump-s-tax-dodging-migrant-grandpa-went-cutting-hair-building-empire-brothels-customers-pay-gold-dust-nuggets.html

Hanks, Patrick (2003), "Trump", in Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press