Trimble
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: trĭm′bəl[1]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪm.bəl/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtɹəm.bəl/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈʈɾɪm.bel/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪmbəl
- Hyphenation: Trim‧ble[1]
Proper noun
Trimble (countable and uncountable, plural Trimbles)
- An English and Irish surname, variant of Trumble.
- David Trimble, First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002 (1944–2022)
- A surname from French, Americanized variant of Tremblay.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Cullman County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in La Plata County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Illinois.
- A city in Clinton County, Missouri.
- A village in Athens County, Ohio.
- A town in Dyer County, Tennessee.
Derived terms
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Trimble is the 2235th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 16306 individuals. Trimble is most common among White (79.2%) and Black/African American (14.84%) individuals.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Trimble”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Trimble”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.