Find out how popular the last name Trautwein is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Trautwein.

Trautwein, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Trautwein surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Trautwein in America

Trautwein is the 26949th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Trautwein surname appeared 900 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Trautwein.

We can also compare 2010 data for Trautwein to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Trautwein

The surname Trautwein originated in Germany and dates back to the early medieval period. It is derived from the Old High German words "triuti" meaning beloved and "win" meaning friend, thus the name translates to "beloved friend." The earliest recorded spelling variations include Trautwin, Trautwein, and Trautwine.

The name Trautwein first appeared in records from the region of Franconia in Bavaria during the 12th century. A notable early bearer was Trautwein von Nürnberg, a knight who lived in the city of Nuremberg in the late 1200s. The name was also found in the town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, where a family of Trautweins owned a vineyard in the 15th century.

In the 16th century, the Trautwein name appeared in the records of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in northern Germany. A merchant named Johann Trautwein was a respected member of the town council in the year 1532. Another prominent bearer was Caspar Trautwein, a Lutheran minister and theologian who lived from 1547 to 1618 in the city of Wittenberg, the birthplace of the Protestant Reformation.

The Trautwein name can be found in several historical documents, including the Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae, a collection of medieval records from the Kingdom of Saxony. A 1427 entry mentions a Henricus Trautwein, a landowner in the town of Grimma.

In the 18th century, Johann Georg Trautwein (1715-1795) was a renowned clockmaker and inventor from the city of Nuremberg. He is credited with developing the first mechanical calculator that could perform all four arithmetic operations.

Other notable bearers of the Trautwein surname include Carl Friedrich Trautwein (1792-1865), a German jurist and politician who served as a member of the Frankfurt Parliament during the Revolutions of 1848. Wilhelm Trautwein (1891-1942) was a German general who commanded several Panzer divisions during World War II before his death in action.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Trautwein

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Trautwein.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Trautwein was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Trautwein has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Trautwein was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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