Meanings
- A male given name from Welsh, from Welsh Trefor. Popular in the UK in the 1950s and the 1960s.
The designer of the study, Trevor Dupuy, was a decorated US Army colonel, a noted military historian and a founding faculty member of Harvard University’s Defense Studies Program.
2021 October 20, Jennifer Tucker, “Now that guns can kill hundreds in minutes, Supreme Court should rethink the rights question”, in CNN1 more example
He never wasted a word even to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules. When he said 'Trevor' it was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance. - - - There was every reason why T., as he was afterwards referred to, should have been an object of mockery - there was his name ( and they substituted the initial because otherwise they had no excuse not to laugh at it ) - - -
1941, Graham Greene, “The Destructors”, in Collected Stories, Heinemann, page 327 - A surname.
- A village in Llangollen Rural community, Wrexham borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2642).
- A community in the village of Salem Lakes, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Trevor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trevor
“Trevor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trevor. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Trevor,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Trevor.
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