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First name origin & meaning:

French: Crossing

First name variations: Tavers, Traver, Travers, Traves, Travess, Travey, Travus, Travuss, Travys, Trever, Trevor

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English (mainly Lancashire and Yorkshire): occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English travis ‘crossing’, variant of travers (see Travers).
  2. German: Americanized variant of Drewes.

Famous people with this first name: Travis Barker, Travis Tritt

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick

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