Further information: Trump (surname)
Trump is a German surname derived from a word for "drum".[3]
The name is on record in Kallstadt from the 17th century, and has been
spelled in many different ways, including Drumpf, Drumpff, Drumpft,
Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, Dromb and Trump.[4] In the Palatine dialect of the area the name Trump is, regardless of spelling, pronounced [ˈdrʊmpʰ] ("droomp").[1]The family originates in Kallstadt in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The first known person by the surname in Kallstadt, a lawyer called Hanns Drumpf, settled there in 1608.
