WagnerPaiva said:
It is a funny thing how names work. Donald is a celtic name that means King of the World.
And that is what he has become. Very interesting...
Recently numerous news websites have published articles on the pre-immigration spelling of Donald Trump's surname, Drumpf. They correctly point out that the English translation of this German word is trump card; ironic given the man's heavy involvement with gambling enterprises. But the real origin of Trump's name is less bombastic.
Donald: Trump's forename is Scottish. His mother, born Mary Anne MacLeod, immigrated to the United States from Stornoway, a large, sparsely-populated island off the coast of Scotland. Mary had an older brother, Donald MacLeod, and grandfather, Donald Smith[1]. Donald is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic name, Domhanll, which means world-ruler[2].
John: Trump's middle name is the English derivative of the Hebrew name, Yohanan, which means Graced by Yahweh[3]. Yahweh was a god in the pantheon of the ancient Canaanite religion and later the monotheistic god of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Trump: Donald Trump's father was a German immigrant. When he arrived in the United States, he spelled his surname, Drumpf, but Anglicized it to Trump. His earliest known ancestor was a lawyer, Hans Drumpf[4]. This shifting of d to t in German has been common, e.g. vader → vater (English: father)[5]. Drumpf is a corruption of Trumpf, which is derived from the German word, trumme, meaning drummer[6]. It is likely that one of Trump's paternal ancestors was a military drummer, used set marching pace and communicate other orders[7].
Thus Donald Trump's full name literally means: the ruler of the world, graced by God and a descendant of a drummer.
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