as a Last Name
- 21,058
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Trotter
Meaning & Origins
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).
| 1,712th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 21,058
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Trotter per capita
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