Last Name TRAVIS

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: French 'de la traverse,' from residence besides a crossway, a point where roads met.

Origin	English, Spanish, Irish

Rank	960 (2000 US census)	841 (1990 US census)

Count	33,339 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

76.04%, or 25351 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
20.02%, or 6674 total occurrences, as black,
0.49%, or 163 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.42%, or 140 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.45%, or 483 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.58%, or 527 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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