Travers

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• English and French : occupational name for a gatherer of tolls exacted for the right of passage across a bridge, ford, or other thoroughfare, from Middle English, Old French travers ‘passage’, ‘crossing’, from Old French traverser ‘to cross’.
• Northern Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (see Trevor).
• A Travers from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1712, with the secondary surname Sansregret.