Frequency: (132)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Dutch: variant of the German family name Trott(e), an ironical nickname for a slow awkward person, from Middle High German trotten ‘to trot’ (see Trott).
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