Trull
A name most likely tied to the Somerset place-name Trull, though older writers also connected it with a Middle English word for a loose woman.
The #9,150 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 86,605 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The strongest historical explanation is that Trull is a locational surname from Trull, a parish in Somerset. In this sense, it would have originally identified someone who came from that place. A separate older strand of explanation treated it as related to Middle English trull, a word for a woman of loose morals, but that is a very different kind of origin and is not the likeliest surname source here.
History
19th-century surname dictionaries repeatedly point to the Somerset parish as the main source, and they also link the surname with the related form Troll. The name appears in English records and later in the United States, where it remains uncommon but established. Because the surname is relatively rare, modern bearers are often descended from a small number of English family lines rather than many unrelated origins.
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Fun fact
Older reference books sometimes gave wildly different explanations for the same surname, and TRULL is a good example: one source treats it as a place-name, while another glosses it with an old insult word.
From the historical record
“Tregian. TRULL. A parish in co. Somerset. TRULY. Truleigh, or Truly, is a manor in the parish of Edburton, co. Sussex. TRUMBULL. A corruption of Turn- bull. TRUNDLE. See Trendle. TRUSSEL. An ancient Norman family, located, in the reign of Henry I., in War-”
— Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom