Trevino
A Spanish and Italian-style surname most likely referring to someone from a place called Trevi or Treviño, or to a related regional place-name.
The #562 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 5,156 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Trevino is usually treated as a locational surname, built from a place-name rather than a descriptive word or occupation. In Spanish, it is commonly associated with Treviño in northern Spain; in Italian contexts, it can also be connected with Trevi or similar place-names. The underlying sense is simply “one from Treviño/Trevi,” with the place-name itself probably going back to older pre-Roman or local geographical naming traditions.
History
The surname is well established in the Spanish-speaking world and became especially common in the Americas through Spanish colonial and later migration patterns. In the United States it is strongly associated with Mexican American families and is now a fairly common Hispanic surname. Spellings without the tilde, like Trevino, are standard in English-language records.
Origin
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Fun fact
In U.S. records, Trevino is often written without the Spanish ñ because many English-language systems historically dropped diacritics.
From the historical record
“Cremona, Stradella, Sienna, Carrara, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Leghorn, Pisa, - St. Angelo, Corso, - Ancona, Bologna, PoH- castro, Asti, Rimini, Castiglione, Pescia, Cuneo, Trevino, Al- ■' * - •* , * •* *”
— A Grammar of American Surnames