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

Trump, 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 Trump surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Trump in America

Trump is the 8484th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Trump surname appeared 3,886 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Trump.

We can also compare 2010 data for Trump 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 Trump

The surname Trump is an English surname derived from the Old German word "trompe" or "trombe", meaning a wind instrument or trumpet. It originated in the region of Saxony in present-day Germany, where the name first appeared in records dating back to the 13th century.

The earliest known bearer of the name was a man named Trompe von Rickenbach, who was listed in a tax register in the town of Zweibrücken in 1292. Over the next few centuries, the name spread throughout Germany and neighboring regions, with various spellings such as Trumme, Trompe, and Trumpe.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name in England appears in the 1487 Subsidy Rolls of Suffolk, where a John Trompe is listed as a resident of Bury St. Edmunds. By the 16th century, the spelling had evolved to the modern form of Trump, and the name had become firmly established in parts of England, particularly in the counties of Devon and Somerset.

One notable early bearer of the Trump surname was William Trump, a merchant and landowner who lived in Glastonbury, Somerset, in the late 16th century. He is mentioned in several local records from the time, including a 1597 deed granting him land in the nearby village of West Pennard.

In the 17th century, the name appears in the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, indicating that some Trump families had emigrated to the American colonies. One of the earliest known Trump settlers was Matthias Trump, who arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany in 1675 and established a homestead in what is now Montgomery County.

Another prominent figure in the history of the Trump surname was John Trump, a Scottish philosopher and writer who was born in Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, in 1756. He studied at the University of Aberdeen and later became a professor of philosophy at the United College, St. Andrews.

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the Trump surname continued to be found in various parts of the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States and other countries to which English and German immigrants had settled. Notable bearers of the name during this period included Alexander Trump, a Scottish shipbuilder and merchant who lived in Leith, near Edinburgh, in the early 19th century, and Isaac Trump, an American composer and music teacher who was born in Pennsylvania in 1834.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Trump

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

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 Trump 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 Trump 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 Trump was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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