Trott

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Trott is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Bermuda it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a verbal substantive of ‘to trot’ in the sense of TROTTER, or perhaps AFr trote ‘old woman, hag’; first attested Walter, Robert Trot 1206 P (Sr), Cur (Bk).

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 28K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 33K
  • CACanada1 in 68K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.8K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
296 ●

49K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 54K ◐

St. Kitts & Nevis

Meaning & origin●

from a verbal substantive of ‘to trot’ in the sense of TROTTER, or perhaps AFr trote ‘old woman, hag’; first attested Walter, Robert Trot 1206 P (Sr), Cur (Bk)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Trott is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—7,1395.9K rec.——Trott125
US United States—4,49837K rec.1 in 74K4.5KTrott296
AU Australia—3,0242.7K rec.——Trott104
CA Canada—1,1031K rec.——Trott67
BM Bermuda#1409403 rec.——Trott23
NZ New Zealand—253182 rec.——Trott48
IT Italy—251260 rec.——Trott13
BR Brazil—208△2 rec.1 in 1M208—1
IE Ireland—134133 rec.——Trott9
JM Jamaica—105105 rec.——Trott4
EG Egypt—5463 rec.——Trott4
KR South Korea—4748 rec.——Trott2

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Languages●

  • English50K79%
  • Welsh3K5%
  • German2.5K4%
  • Spanish1.4K2%
  • 1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English50,25279%
Welsh2,9765%
German2,5364%
Spanish1,3642%
1,0202%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Trott is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname414 records spelled Trott4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Ťrott

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Trott is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, a different form of Trotter.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In Swedish, supine of tro

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, jog, trot

    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.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Albert Trott, b. 1873David Trott, b. 1960Judi Trott, b. 1962Mena Grabowski Trott, b. 1977Jonathan Trott, b. 1981Laura Trott, b. 1984Abby Trott, b. 1986Emma Trott, b. 1989Laura Trott, b. 1992Nathan Trott, b. 1998

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 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Trott
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.5K#7,399
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.2K#7,299
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.9K#8,112
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—208#35,619
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202638—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—38#60,258
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202636—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—36#62,960
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200731#40,428
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23#78,099
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23#75,692
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202412#53,184

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Trott?
We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Trott (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Trott have the most bearers?
Trott is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled trott.
How common is Trott compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Trott is the most common surname of 6,602 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Trott mean?
Recorded meaning: from a verbal substantive of ‘to trot’ in the sense of TROTTER, or perhaps AFr trote ‘old woman, hag’; first attested Walter, Robert Trot 1206 P (Sr), Cur (Bk)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trott” — the most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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