Trevor
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| Gender | Male |
| Meaning | Big Village Prudent |
| Origin | Welsh, Irish |
| Wikipedia articles | All pages beginning with Trevor |
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Trevor can be a male given name or a surname.
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[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 "prudent".
[edit] As a surname
The Trevor dynasty have for centuries been associated with the Llangollen and Chirk areas in Denbighshire, north-east Wales:
- John Trevor I was Bishop of St Asaph (1352-1357)
- John Trevor II was Bishop of St Asaph (1395-1402)
- Baron Trevor is a British peerage title.
Notable people with the surname Trevor include:
- Claire Trevor (1910-2000), American actress
- Glen Trevor (1900-1954), pen-name of James Hilton
- William Trevor (born 1928), Irish writer
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre (1914–2003), British historian
[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 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
[edit] Fictional characters
- Trevor the Traction Engine, character from The Railway Series children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry
- Trevor, Neville Longbottom's pet toad in the Harry Potter series
- Trevor Belmont, a character from the popular Castlevania game series
- Trevor McKinney, a 12 year old character in the movie Pay It Forward played by Haley Joel Osment
- D.S. Trevor Hands, character from the British crime drama television series, "M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team" played by Michael McKell (2003, 2005).
[edit] Other uses of the name
- Trevor, 1995 award-winning short film which received honorable mention at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Live Action Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards
- The Trevor Project, toll-free suicide prevention helpline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States, inspired by the film
[edit] See also
- John Trevor, various people
- Trevor Jones, various people
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