Travers

Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Travers has been given to 395 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Travers, 2021

1 in 565,000

Travers over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Travers: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Travers means

Travers is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Travers is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹæv.əɹz/ and /ˈtɹæv.əz/ for Travers.

The naming story behind Travers

Travers is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 395 boys were recorded with the name Travers between 1914 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,274 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Travers?

Travers had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 565,000; 6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only: 1 in 292,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Travers sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Travers. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Traverss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Travers was born before 1981 — so the typical Travers is around 44 today.

Median birth year: 1981; About 44 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 16.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 366; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Travers rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (20)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,274; 1971

Spellings of Travers

Travers is not the most common spelling — Travis is, with 96.5% against Travers's 0.12%.

Travis96.5%308,571
Trever2.0%6,311
Rivers0.59%1,888
Traveon0.33%1,070
Travell0.27%857
Traven0.25%813
Travers0.12%395

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Travers around the world

Where Travers ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1959–1999
#539
in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Travers by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,274; 1971
Peak year: 1980; 20 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 395
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Travers

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Travers

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Darci Candi Siobhan Starla Shamika

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Delvin Chauncey Kareem

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