Baby name
CLASSIC BOY · OLD FRENCH
🇧🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 +5 Travis
/TRAV · us/
Meaning
“To cross or crossroads”
Old French 'travers' meaning 'to cross' or 'crossroads', occupational surname converted to given name in 1970s Anglophone tradition.
How it ages.
Travis boomed 1970-2000 as a masculine surname-to-given-name conversion and has declined steadily since.
The cultural moment.
Travis peaked in the US in 1979 (#36), stayed common through the 1980s and has declined steadily since; Canada and UK adoption lower.