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Updated June 10, 2021

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Torrent; rapid stream
  • Old English : Dweller by the Trent

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Trent

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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