Travis
Travis reached its high-water mark in 1989 at number 41, and has been recorded 310,687 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 434th. About 283,000 Travises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Travis boys named Travis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 310,687
- Estimated living today
- 283,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 41st
- Rank in 2025
- 434th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,116 / 308,571
How old the living Travises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 310,687 babies given the name since 1880, about 283,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 5,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From an Old French word meaning "to cross over, " related to traverse. Probably a name for a gatekeeper or the toll collector of a bridge.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Traviss
- Travis Barker (born 1975)American drummer
- Travis Fimmel (born 1979)Australian actor and model
- Travis Kelce (born 1989)American football player
- Travis Kalanick (born 1976)American entrepreneur
- Travis Pastrana (born 1983)American professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer
- Travis Van Winkle (born 1982)American actor
- Travis Willingham (born 1981)American voice actor
- Travis Stevens (born 1986)American judoka
People named Travis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Travis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Travis is most concentrated in Alaska (2.6×), Wyoming (2.4×), Idaho (2.1×), Utah (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Travis peaked:
Travis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Travis | 5,261 | 120th |
| France boys | Travis | 655 | 1,065th |
| Scotland boys | Travis | 445 | 177th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Travis | 254 | 132nd |
| Ireland boys | Travis | 189 | 226th |
| Switzerland boys | Travis | 107 | 636th |
| New Zealand boys | Travis | 65 | 77th |
| Belgium boys | Travis | 19 | 1,018th |
| Poland boys | Travis | 2 birth registrations | 582nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Travis: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Travis | 84 | 0.007% | 489th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Travis | 15 | 0.003% | 573rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Travis | 7 | 0.011% | 127th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Travis | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Travis is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Travis: rank by region
In 2021, Travis was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Travis | 520 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Travis by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Travis among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Travis | 20 | 34 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Travis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.