Travis
Travis is ranked 361st among boys in 2024 (914 births). Its best rank was 36th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- #361up 18 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9140.05% of boys
- Peak year
- 198911,528 births
- Best rank
- #36in 1979
- Since 1880
- 309,943people given the name
The story in the numbers
307,827 boys have been named Travis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 11,528 births — 0.58% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 253 → 361).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1980s alone account for 33%. It has spent 141 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,116 girls have also been given it, 0.68% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Travis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 76 | |
| 1890s | 97 | |
| 1900s | 194 | |
| 1910s | 1,437 | |
| 1920s | 2,461 | |
| 1930s | 3,188 | |
| 1940s | 3,580 | |
| 1950s | 3,898 | |
| 1960s | 12,600 | |
| 1970s | 64,107 | |
| 1980s | 102,929 | |
| 1990s | 68,208 | |
| 2000s | 25,736 | |
| 2010s | 14,896 | |
| 2020s | 4,420 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Travis was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Travis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jerrodpeak 1983
- Jeredpeak 1982
- Dustonpeak 1986
- Caseypeak 1990
- Rodriquezpeak 1992
- Jarrodpeak 1980
- Kristopherpeak 1978
- Jarradpeak 1988
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.