Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a
messenger, from an agent derivative of Middle English trot(en)
‘to walk fast’ (Old French troter, of Germanic origin, akin to
2 below).German: occupational name for a grape-treader, from a
derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’. The word
and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland,
and Swabia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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