Travis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Transferred use of the surname, in origin a Norman French occupational name (from traverser ‘to cross’) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɹævɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Travis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #702 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 591 (measured from records)
- 1 in 863 (inferred from the name graph)
≈400,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Transferred use of the surname, in origin a Norman French occupational name (from traverser ‘to cross’) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road. It is now regularly used as a given name, especially in America and Australia. Tonya Variant of Tonia.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Travis, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Travis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Travis | 41 |
| US United States | #273 | 248,557 | 1 in 1.3K | 248K | Travis | 591 |
| CA Canada | #364 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 13 | Travis | 248 |
| GB United Kingdom | #539 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 11 | Travis | 216 |
| AU Australia | #361 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 96 | Travis | 239 |
| NZ New Zealand | #331 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 16 | Travis | 102 |
| GY Guyana | — | 869 | 1 in 863 | 869 | — | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Travis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname originating as an occupation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Different form of Travers.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
English: transferred use of the surname, which is derived from a Norman French occupational name (from traverser to cross) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road. It is now regularly used as a given name, especially in America and Australia.
as a word
In Catalan, second-person singular present subjunctive of travar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jim Reevesb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican country singer (1923–1964)
- Glen Campbellb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (1936–2017)
- Bruce McGillb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Travis Knightb. 1973USAmerican animator, producer, director, and former rapper
- Travis Barkerb. 1975USAmerican drummer (born 1975)
- Travis Kalanickb. 1976USAmerican entrepreneur
- Travis Fimmelb. 1979AUAustralian actor and model
- Travis Willinghamb. 1981USAmerican voice actor
- Travis McCoyb. 1981USAmerican rapper and singer
- Travis Van Winkleb. 1982USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 82 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 248K | #223 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 869 | #76 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 732 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 716 | #223 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1998 | 96 | #88 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 93 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2003 | 52 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 19 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2024 | 16 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 13 | #353 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 11 | #330 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | 8 | #239 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Travis a male or female name?
- Travis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Travis mean, and where does it come from?
- Transferred use of the surname, in origin a Norman French occupational name (from traverser ‘to cross’) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Travis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 405 thousand people named Travis in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled travis.
- Where is Travis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Travis is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 863 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Travis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 248,557 people named Travis in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Travis compared with other names?
- In the United States, Travis is the 273rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Travis?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹævɪs/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Travis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/travisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Travis” — the 273rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.