Tromp
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tromp is a surname, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Occupational surname from mhd.
- AWAruba1 in 152◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.1K
- FIFinland1 in 174K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈6.3K ●
- Sources
- 30 ●
- 1 in 3.1K ◐
across 12 countries
796 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Occupational surname from mhd. trumbe/trumpe/trum(m)e, mnd. trumbe ‘drum/trumpet’; bearer count 49. Also possibly a nickname from mhd. trum ‘block, clod’.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 5,577△ | 121 rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 5.6K | Tromp | 28 |
| US United States | — | 519△ | 162 rec. | 1 in 641K | 553 | Tromp | 30 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 268 | 256 rec. | — | — | Tromp | 13 |
| CO Colombia | — | 203 | 75 rec. | — | — | Tromp | 24 |
| AW Aruba | #8 | 154 | 5 rec. | — | — | Tromp | 10 |
| BE Belgium | — | 56 | — | 1 in 209K | 56 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | 50 | 41 rec. | — | — | Tromp | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 37△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 37 | Tromp | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 32 | — | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 32 | 27 rec. | — | — | Tromp | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 30△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 280K | 30 | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | 19 | — | 1 in 3.6M | 19 | — | — |
Roughly 5.6K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 3.1K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English8.6K36%
- Western Frisian5.6K23%
- Dutch4.2K17%
- French1.2K5%
- German1.1K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,634 | 36% |
| Western Frisian | 5,577 | 23% |
| Dutch | 4,164 | 17% |
| French | 1,232 | 5% |
| German | 1,091 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Tromp is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from ON Braunsberg
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ON. Braunsberg
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In enm, alternative form of trumpe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 6 |
| 1901 | 14 |
| 1911 | 13 |
| 1921 | 15 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1941 | 20 |
| 1951 | 18 |
| 1961 | 17 |
| 1971 | 16 |
| 1981 | 28 |
| 1991 | 19 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maarten Trompb. 1598NLDutch admiral (1598-1653)
- Cornelis Trompb. 1629NLDutch admiral (1629–1691)
- Henricus Trompb. 1878NLDutch rower (1878-1962)
- Gerrit Trompb. 1901NLDutch rower (1901-1938)
- Felipe Trompb. 1917NLGovernor of Aruba (1917-1995)
- John Trompb. 1966NLDutch computer scientist
- Marlene Trompb. 1966USAmerican academic, President of Boise State University
- Maarten Trompb. 1983NLDutch rower
- Esra Trompb. 1990NLcyclist
- Chadwick Trompb. 1995NLAruban baseball player (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 43 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tromp?
- We estimate roughly 6.3 thousand people bear Tromp (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tromp have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 5.6 thousand people bear Tromp in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tromp.
- How common is Tromp compared with other names?
- In Aruba, Tromp is the 8th most common surname of 142 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Tromp mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occupational surname from mhd.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tromp” — the 8th most common surname in Aruba. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.