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Travanti vs Travis

American parents have registered 310,687 Travises since 1880, against 81 Travantis. Travis is still ahead, with 732 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Travanti 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 1985, when Travanti had 14 and Travis had 9,165.

Side by side

  Travanti Travis
Total US births 81310,687
Most in one year 1511,575
Babies in 2025 under 5732
Estimated living today 80283,000
Median age today 4038
Peak year 19821989
Best rank 2,972nd boys41st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked434th
First recorded 19821880
Girls / boys 0 / 812,116 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Travantis alive today are over 40; half the Travises are over 38. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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