Travis (given name)
Appearance
Gender | Male |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Anglo-Norman Old French: traverser |
Meaning | to cross over |
Region of origin | Normandy |
Other names | |
Related names | Travis |
Surname turned into given name. |
Travis is mainly an English masculine given name of French origin. It is derived from the word "traverser" or "to cross", and was given to toll collectors who stood by a bridge or crossing.[1]
People
[edit]- Travis Alabanza (born 1995), British artist, writer and theatre maker
- Travis Alexander (1977-2008), American salesman who was murdered by his ex-girlfriend
- Travis Allen (born 1973), American politician
- Travis Banton (1894–1958), American costume designer
- Travis Barker (born 1975), American drummer for the rock band Blink-182
- Travis Beacham (born 1980), American screenwriter
- Travis Bell (born 1998), American football player
- Travis Best (born 1972), American basketball player
- Travis Blankenhorn (born 1996), American baseball player
- Travis Boak (born 1988) Australian rules footballer
- Travis Brody (born 1984), professional American football quarterback
- Travis Brown (cyclist) (born 1969), American cyclist
- Travis Brown (quarterback) (born 1977), former American football quarterback
- Travis Brown (wide receiver) (born 1986), American football wide receiver
- Travis Browne (born 1982), American mixed martial artist
- Travis Clark (born 1985), American musician
- Travis Chapman (born 1978), American baseball player and coach
- Travis Childers (born 1958), former U.S. representative from Mississippi
- Travis Clayton (born 2001), English-American football player
- Travis Coleman (born 1980), American football player
- Travis d'Arnaud (born 1989), American baseball player
- Travis Demeritte (born 1994), American baseball player
- Travis Dermott (born 1996), National Hockey League player
- Travis Dye (born 1999), American football player
- Travis Elborough (born 1971), British author
- Travis Etienne (born 1999), American football player
- Travis Feeney (born 1992), American football player
- Travis Fimmel (born 1979), Australian model and actor
- Travis Fulgham (born 1995), American football player
- Travis Garland (born 1989), American singer and dancer
- Travis Glover (born 2000), American football player
- Travis Green (born 1970), Canadian professional ice hockey coach and player
- Travis Greene (born 1984), American gospel singer
- Travis Haley, (known as Lexxi Foxxx) American bass player for the rock band Steel Panther
- Travis Hamonic (born 1990), professional ice hockey player
- Travis Head (born 1993), Australian cricketer
- Travis Henry (born 1978), American football running back
- Travis Homer (born 1998), American football player
- Travis Ishikawa (born 1983), American baseball player
- Travis Jankowski (born 1991), American baseball player
- Travis Johnstone (born 1980), Australian rules footballer
- Travis Kelce (born 1989), American football tight end
- Travis Konecny (born 1997), Canadian hockey forward
- Travis Kvapil (born 1976), American former NASCAR driver
- Travis Lakins Sr. (born 1994), American baseball player
- Travis Leslie (born 1990), American professional basketball player
- Travis Ludlow (born 2003), English aviator
- Travis Lutter (born 1973), American mixed martial artist
- Travis Marx (born 1977), American mixed martial artist
- Travis McCoy (born 1981), musician and singer
- Travis McElroy (born 1983), American podcaster
- Travis Meeks (born 1979), lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for acoustic rock band Days of the New
- Travis Mills (born 1989), American singer, rapper and actor
- Travis Nicklaw (born 1993), American-born Guamanian international footballer
- Travis Pastrana (born 1983), American motorsports athlete
- Travis Pearson (born 1971), American football player
- Travis Perry (born 2005), American basketball player
- Travis Reed (born 1979), American basketball player
- Travis Rinker (born 1968), American association football (soccer) player
- Travis Scott (born 1991), American rapper
- Travis Shaw (born 1990), American baseball player
- Travis Sinniah, admiral, commander of the Sri Lanka Navy from August to October 2017
- Travis Swaggerty (born 1997), American baseball player
- Travis Tritt (born 1963), American country musician
- Travis Vokolek (born 1998), American football player
- Travis Wall (born 1987), contemporary dance teacher
- Travis Walton (born 1953), an American alleged alien abductee
- Travis Warech (born 1991), American-German-Israeli basketball player for Israeli team Hapoel Be'er Sheva
- Travis Wear (born 1990), American basketball player
- Travis Willingham (born 1981), American voice actor
- Travis Wilson (wide receiver) (born 1984), American football wide receiver
- Travis Zajac (born 1985), Canadian National Hockey League player
Fictional characters
[edit]- Travis Bell, a character in Killer7
- Travis Bickle, protagonist of the film Taxi Driver
- Travis Coates, in the novel Old Yeller and its Disney film adaptation
- Travis Fields, the protagonist of Oddity
- Travis Harris, protagonist of the novel Taming the Star Runner by S.E. Hinton
- Travis Henderson, protagonist of the film Paris, Texas, by Wim Wenders
- Travis Maddox, protagonist of the novel Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
- Travis Mayweather, in the American TV series Star Trek: Enterprise
- Travis McGee, created by John D. MacDonald
- Travis Nash, from the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Travis Strong, one of the main characters from the Canadian TV series Radio Free Roscoe
- Travis Touchdown, the main character in the No More Heroes series
- Travis Tractor, a character from the British children's series Bob the Builder
- Travis Younger, a minor character in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- Travis, antagonist of the British TV series Blake's 7
- Travis the African Buffalo from the children’s show Jim Henson's Animal Show
- Travis Montgomery, from Grey's Anatomy: Station 19