Trotman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Trotman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: synonymous with TROTTER; first attested Richard Troteman 1224 Cur (Ess).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 56K
- USUnited States1 in 104K
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)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,212 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
synonymous with TROTTER; first attested Richard Troteman 1224 Cur (Ess)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trotman 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 | — | 3,212 | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Trotman | 286 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 2.5K | Trotman | 148 |
| GY Guyana | #89 | 673 | 1 in 1.1K | 673 | Trotman | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Trotman | 101 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Trotman | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | #482 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Trotman | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 60 | 1 in 1.7K | 60 | — | 1 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 47 | 1 in 1.1K | 47 | — | 10 |
| DM Dominica | — | 9 | 1 in 8.2K | 9 | — | 2 |
3,212 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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lloyd Trotmanb. 1923USAmerican musician
- David Trotmanb. 1951FRmathematician
- Raphael Trotmanb. 1966GYGuyanese politician
- Julia Trotmanb. 1968USsailor
- Mickey Trotmanb. 1974TTTrinidadian footballer (1974–2001)
- Spike Trotmanb. 1978USAmerican cartoonist
- James Trotmanb. 1979GBBritish tennis player
- Clive Trotmanb. 1983PAPanamanian footballer
- Neal Trotmanb. 1987GBEnglish footballer (born 1987)
- Zach Trotmanb. 1990USAmerican ice hockey defenceman
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,923 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.5K | #3,043 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 673 | #157 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 60 | #202 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 47 | #135 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #218 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trotman mean, and where does it come from?
- synonymous with TROTTER; first attested Richard Troteman 1224 Cur (Ess) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Trotman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Trotman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trotman.
- Where is Trotman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trotman is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trotman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,212 people named Trotman in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Trotman compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Trotman is the 89th most common surname of 15,834 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, “Trotman” — the 89th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.