Travers
Travers is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Travers
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Travers is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Travers
American parents first put Travers on the record books as a baby boy name in 1914, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1980, when 20 Traverss were born — ranking #2,444 that year. About 31% of every Travers on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Travers last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 395 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Travers
Travers is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1914 and has accumulated 395 births in the dataset. Travers's peak popularity came in 1980 when it ranked #2,444. Use the chart and map above to compare Travers's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.