girls:
2.1k births since 1910
#3733 (35th percentile)
boys:
306.9k births since 1880
#114 (98th percentile)
overall:
309k births since 1880
#248 (97th percentile)
The name Travis is the #248 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 309,017 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #114 (97.5% percentile) for all time with 306,901 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,733 (34.7% percentile) for all time with 2,116 births since 1910.
Travis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1910 for girls). Birth data for Travis is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 88 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Travis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Travis reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 94.9% percentile (ranked #36) with 6,162 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 6,162 births per million (ranked 94.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1991, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Travis ranks #356 for boys (61.0% percentile) with 459 births per million, which is 7.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Travis reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #692) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 49 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Travis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Travis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Travis is pronounced as TRA-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TRA-vuhs, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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