Given name & surname
Travers
“to cross over”
Travers is a variant of Travis. One French interpretation is “to cross over.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Travers is a variant of Travis. One French interpretation is “to cross over.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Travers is a variant of Travis. An origin associated with Travis is Norman French.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), from Irish Ó Treabhair.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Travers is a variant of Travis. The history of Travis gives this family its wider story. Travis’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Travers through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 395
- 395 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 404 as a first name in 2020; 7,239 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Travers’s family of names
Travers has a related form in Travis. In Greek usage, Travers as a surname is a transliteration of Τράβερς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Travers
- Travers TwissBritish legal scholar (1809-1897)
- Travers ValeEnglish-born silent film director (1865-1927)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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