Trent

Meaning

Proper Noun

• Trento, the city in Italy.
• river in central England, flowing 298 km (185 mile mi.) from Staffordshire (county) through Derbyshire (county) Leicestershire (county) Nottinghamshire (county) and Lincolnshire (county) to join the Ouse and form the Humber estuary.
• An English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived near any of the rivers of that name.
• A male given name from surnames.

Origin

• *From Welsh tros (over) + hynt (way), often taken to mean "the trespasser"
• *Another possibility: a shortening of "Tranent", or "Tranant" in Scottish Gaelic, a geographical location in East Lothian. "Tranant" itself is possibly of Brythonic origin.