Trent Family History
Trent Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living on the banks of
any of the several rivers so called. The river name is of British
origin; it may be composed of the unattested elements tri
‘through’, ‘across’ + sant- ‘travel’, ‘journey’; alternatively
it may mean ‘traveler’ or ‘trespasser’, a reference to frequent
flooding. There is a village in Dorset of this name, on the river
Trent or Piddle, and the surname may therefore also be a habitational
name derived from this.Scottish: probably of the same
origin as 1, though in some cases it may be from a reduced form of
Tranent, a place in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Trent
Name Distribution of Trent Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Trent families
 73 - 144  25 - 72 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Trent Family Origin
Trent Emigration Information (US)
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Trent Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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