Etymology

Trenholm

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse trani
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromtrani“crane”
  2. English todayTrenholm

English habitational surname, from a place in North Yorkshire, named from Old Norse trani (“crane”) + holmr (“island”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.