Trent Surname

20,143rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 27,142 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
American Samoa

Trent Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Trent,' a parish in Somerset, near Sherborne.

Gibert de Trent, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

Trent Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States24,2821:14,9271,875
England8441:66,0177,665
Canada6541:56,3396,663
Australia4341:62,2027,507
South Africa3041:178,21619,593
New Zealand1441:31,4475,459
Panama591:66,3092,910
Poland391:974,58370,126
Russia351:4,117,802198,221
Dominican Republic311:336,54611,471
Germany301:2,683,515132,064
Thailand261:2,716,859279,944
Barbados231:12,498851
Brazil201:10,703,717220,519
Israel191:450,40234,739
France141:4,744,480251,814
Ireland131:362,22614,761
Austria111:774,13064,097
Philippines101:10,123,822213,993
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines101:11,266808
Norway91:571,36544,190
India81:95,883,173728,828
Netherlands81:2,110,89788,902
Scotland81:669,22723,443
Wales81:386,81619,671
Japan71:18,263,47047,869
American Samoa61:9,2931,961
China51:273,464,31313,838
Jersey51:19,8403,614
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Belarus41:2,375,265105,497
Malaysia41:7,373,556230,001
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Iraq41:8,755,41423,373
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Ecuador31:5,301,94930,184
Turkey31:25,940,474162,557
Denmark31:1,881,57267,227
Guatemala31:5,360,8898,925
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Albania21:1,457,02824,967
Greece21:5,539,895129,142
Nigeria21:88,571,379625,098
Ukraine21:22,761,348425,733
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Hong Kong21:3,667,74211,574
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
Zimbabwe11:15,438,240133,260
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Tanzania11:52,941,613123,716
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Andorra11:83,8382,381
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Bahrain11:1,348,60810,432
Belgium11:11,496,644167,539
Belize11:355,4743,977
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Suriname11:552,6169,664
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Montenegro11:639,5659,092
Morocco11:34,476,099111,471
Qatar11:2,357,99976,403
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4381:55,6526,609
Wales21:784,20816,349
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States3,1041:16,1792,055

Trent (55,504) may also be a first name.

Trent Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Trent,' a parish in Somerset, near Sherborne.

Gibert de Trent, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Perhaps from Trent, a parish in the county of Somerset, England. This more likely than that the name is a curtailed form of Tranent. Some of the local references, however, point rather to the latter origin. William Trent was a monk of Cupar Abbey in 1456 (Panmure, II, p. 236), and in 1521 Petrus Trent witnessed a tack by the abbot of the same house (SCM., V, p. 294). John Trent was tenant of the Abbey of Neubotle in 1563 (Neubotle, p. 326), a later John Trent was retoured heir of James Trent in Newbottell, his father, in 1638 and in 1661 William Trent was retoured heir of John Trent, his father (Retours, Edinburgh, 834, 1089). Alexander Trent recorded in Hardeismyllne, 1672 (Lauder), and Mr. Patrick Trent, minister at Linlithgow, was deprived of his benefice, 1689 (RPC., 3. ser. XIV, p. 50). William Trent (c. 1655-1724), born in Inverness, became chief justice of the state of New Jersey, and the capital of the state (Trenton) was named in his honor. His son, also named William, built the first fort on the site of Pittsburgh.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

1 Dweller by the River Trent, 12th cent. Trenta, 10th cent. Anglo-Saxon charters Trenta, Traenta, the Treonta of the A.-Sax, Chron. a.d. 924, and the Treanta of Baeda. What the river was called during the Roman occupation is uncertain. Dr. Bradley's ingenious emendation in 1883 of Tacitus’s (‘Annales’, xii. 31) “castris antonam” into “cis trisantonam’’, and his identification of the “Trisantona" thus evolved with the mod. Trent, which seems to have been accepted by Prof. Rhys (‘Celt. Brit.’, ed. 1908, p. 80), cannot be said to be convincing, and are perhaps no longer viewed with favour by their author. In my opinion the name is a survival of the Latin torrent-em (Ital. torrénte), a torrent, in allusion to the famous bore or eagre of the lower part of the river; the 0 of the etymon falling out at an early period owing to the stress being on the second syllable: we may compare the name of the Trenta, a mountain-stream of the Austrian Alps.

. . . ane of the sherriffes men, Good William a-Trent was slaine.— Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, 75-6.

2 belonging to Trent (Dorset) [apparently the West. English trend, a current or stream; prob. from Welsh tren(t, rapid]

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) One who came from Trent (trespasser), in Dorset; one who lived on, or near, the Trent River in England.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

The great midland river.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

A location name in Somerset in the Domesday Book, Trend, Trent; a personal name.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber
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Trent Demographics

Trent Religious Adherence
in Ireland

Sample size: 1 (1901)

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Trent Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Trent Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Trent (Arabic: ترنت, Russian: Трент) occurs more in The United States more than any other country/territory. It can be found as:. Click here to see other possible spellings of Trent.

How Common Is The Last Name Trent? popularity and diffusion

The last name Trent is the 20,143rd most numerous family name throughout the world, borne by approximately 1 in 268,497 people. It is predominantly found in The Americas, where 92 percent of Trent live; 91 percent live in North America and 91 percent live in Anglo-North America. It is also the 16,914th most frequent first name internationally It is held by 55,504 people.

The surname Trent is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is held by 24,282 people, or 1 in 14,927. In The United States Trent is most frequent in: Virginia, where 11 percent are found, Tennessee, where 10 percent are found and California, where 6 percent are found. Apart from The United States Trent is found in 71 countries. It is also found in England, where 3 percent are found and Canada, where 2 percent are found.

Trent Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Trent has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Trent surname rose 782 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 193 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Ireland it rose 1,300 percent between 1901 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 800 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it rose 400 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Trent Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the Trent last name is chiefly Anglican (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Trent surname are 16.95% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 63.72% being registered to vote for the party.

The amount Trent earn in different countries varies somewhat. In Norway they earn 2.51% more than the national average, earning 354,766 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 5.45% more than the national average, earning R 250,584 per year; in United States they earn 6.13% less than the national average, earning $40,505 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.24% more than the national average, earning $51,790 CAD per year.

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Trin678,437/
Trnh671,340/
Trenova67259/
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Thrn6779/
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Trent Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Trent in the Russian language
Трентtrent-
Trent in the Arabic language
ترنتtrnt-
ترانتtrant-

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