Board Thread:Castlevania Wiki General Discussion/@comment-1002908-20150925065655/@comment-3200351-20150925115818

It's not stated in any game material. However, supposedly the original script writer (he had more than one role in development)  of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse did a little Q&A a couple of years ago on 2ch, a Japanese message board. Altough all the posters are anonymous, there's definetly reason to believe it was really him since he provided some information that was later confirmed in an interview with the director of Super Castlevania IV, which was done a couple of years later, which before then was completely unknown.

Anyway, this script writer said the "C" in Trevor's name standed for "Christopher". According to him, Trevor was the same character as Christopher, Simon's ancestor. For whatever reason however, he decided to write his first name as "Trevor"  (or Ralph in the Japanese version) and changed "Christopher" into a middle name.

Naturally, this caused some conflict in the storyline. At that time there were basically two Christophers: the Christopher from the GB games The Adventure and Belmont's Revenge, and Trevor/Christopher from Dracula's Curse. Both took place a 100 years before Simon's games but they are mutally exclusive to each other. IGA, who later became producer, changed this by saying Trevor/Chistopher was actually a seperate character from the other Christopher, and that he actually lived 200 years before Simon instead of just 100.

In the end, I think that meant the "C" in Trevor's name has once again become ambigious. I could be still be "Christopher" or it could be somehing else entirely.