Trapp
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Trapper from Middle English trapp 'trap' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Trapp is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,294 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- GYGuyana1 in 16K(measured from records)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 17Kfew records
- JMJamaica≈1 in 35Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
9,294 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishtrapp(measured from records)
- Middle High Germantrappe(measured from records)
(i) Trapper from Middle English trapp 'trap'. (ii) Medieval German nickname for a fool from Middle High German trappe 'bustard'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Trapp is found
(measured from records)Trapp counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,294 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Trapp | 375 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,507 | 1 in 140K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 416 | Trapp | 91 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Trapp | 80 |
| FR France | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 114K | 55 | — | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Trapp | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 46 | 1 in 16K | 46 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #538 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Trapp | 1 |
9,294 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Trapp 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, from OE træppe, trappe ‘trap, gin, snare’; first attested John Trappe 1230 P (Wo)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, An English surname originating as an occupation derived from the occupation of trapper.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, stairs, stairway, staircase, steps (e.g. outdoors)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, bustard
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
(measured from records)- Max Trappb. 1887DEGerman composer (1887-1971)
- James Trappb. 1969USAmerican sprinter and football player
- Kevin Trappb. 1990DEGerman association football player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Trapp come from?
- (i) Trapper from Middle English trapp 'trap'. (ii) Medieval German nickname for a fool from Middle High German trappe 'bustard'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What does the name Trapp mean?
- Recorded meaning: (i) Trapper from Middle English trapp 'trap'.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Trapp?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Trapp, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trapp. After it come Brazil, United Kingdom, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Trapp most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trapp is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trapp?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,294 people named Trapp in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Trapp compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Trapp is the 538th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Trapp” — ranked 3596th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.