as a Last Name
- 7,426
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Travers
Meaning & Origins
English and French: occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English, Old French travers ‘passage’, ‘crossing’, from Old French traverser ‘to cross’.
| 4,149th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Travis, Traver, Traverso, Travieso, Travelstead, Traverse, Travaglini, Traversy, Travassos, Travisano
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,426
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Travers per capita
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