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Tramaine vs Travis

American parents have registered 310,687 Travises since 1880, against 2,452 Tramaines. Travis is still ahead, with 732 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tramaine against Travis, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tramaine Travis

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Travis has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Tramaine had 59 and Travis had 2,126.

Side by side

  Tramaine Travis
Total US births 2,452310,687
Most in one year 14611,575
Babies in 2025 10732
Estimated living today 2,400283,000
Median age today 3738
Peak year 19901989
Best rank 1,181st boys41st boys
Rank in 2025 7,679th434th
First recorded 19721880
Girls / boys 561 / 1,8912,116 / 308,571

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tramaine and Travis.