Travers

Travers is the 4,741st most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,239 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 41,300.

By the numbers

People: 7,239
Rank: 4,741st
How common: 1 in 41,300
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From an occupational name for a toll collector.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Travers described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Travers

P. L. Travers (1899–1996)Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Mary Travers (1936–2009)American folk singer
Morris Travers (1872–1961)English chemist
Henry Travers (1874–1965)British-American actor
Peter Travers (born 1943)American film critic and journalist
Mark Travers (born 1999)Irish association football player
Susan Travers (1909–2003)member of French Foreign Legion
Luke Travers (born 2001)Australian basketball player

People named Travers with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Travers

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.