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Trevor can be a male given name or a surname.
[edit] Etymology
Trevor can be a given name or surname of Welsh origin (as a given name Trefor in Welsh): also a habitational name from any of the numerous places in Wales, in particular the one near Llangollen, from the Welsh tre(f), meaning "homestead", or "settlement" and a form of mawr, meaning "large".
Trevor is also a name of Irish origin. It is a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (descendant of Treabhar), a byname meaning "industrious", "tight", or "Awesome".
[edit] As a surname
The Trevor dynasty have for centuries been associated with the Llangollen and Chirk areas in Denbighshire, north-east Wales:
Notable people with the surname Trevor include:
[edit] As a given name
Notable people with the forename Trevor include:
- Trevor Ariza, NBA basketball
- Trevor Berbick, boxer
- Trevor Eve, actor
- Sir Trevor Dawson Bt, arms manufacturer
- Trevor Devall, actor
- Trevor Hoffman, MLB baseball
- Trevor Howard, actor
- Trevor Immelman, golfer
- Trevor Mallard, New Zealand politician and Cabinet Minister
- Trevor Linden, NHL hockey
- Sir Trevor McDonald, broadcaster
- Trevor Nelson, British DJ
- Sir Trevor Nunn, theatre and film director
- Trevor Phillips (born 1953), British politician
- Trevor Pryce (born 1975), American football player
- Trevor Rabin, guitarist formerly of the rock group Yes
- Trevor Rees-Jones, Bodyguard and sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales
- Trevor Rhodes, professional wrestler
- Trevor St. John, American actor, best known as Todd Manning on ABC-TV soap opera One Life to Live
- Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr., a.k.a Busta Rhymes, American rapper
- Trevor Steven, English footballer
- Trevor Wilkinson, founder (1947–1965) TVR sports cars
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(Source: Wikipedia) |
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