[laumars]

Where I live we also call it “trump”. Which is why many of us never understood why people would claim that Donald Trump has a “powerful name”.

However it did amuse use that a man full of hot air would be named after the expelling of warm but noxious air.

[rob74]

I think the (originally German) name is derived from trump cards - which are also powerful, but in a somewhat different way...

[laumars]

That’s only a modern day theory and feels somewhat retrofitted interpretation of the facts (from what I’ve seen when researching this myself). There are various spellings of the surname, since names often didn’t have a formal spelling in the early days of book keeping. And some of the spellings begun with a ‘T’.

So the more likely scenario is the name was only picked because it sounded similar to their original German family name while being an English-styled spelling.

Given we are taking 30+ years ago though, the best we can do at this stage is speculate.

However even if the card game theory were true, it still doesn’t make Trump a powerful name in the U.K. because the fart connotation is still more prevalent.

[EdwardDiego]

Okay, can you please give me a hint as to where that is? As googling "trump fart" just leads to a lot of terrible Youtube videos.

[reom_tobit]

I’m not the GP but in the UK “trumping” is what we call it (amongst other things, lots of fun words for body sounds).