Entry № 10705 · French origin

Travers Travers — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TRAV-erz /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Crossing place (P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins author)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "crossing place (p.l. travers, mary poppins author)".

Travers is from the Old French traverser (to cross) — historically a Norman surname for one who lived near a crossing. P.L. Banks (2013, with Emma Thompson) dramatized her contentious negotiations with Walt Disney over the film adaptation; Mary Poppins Returns (2018) with Emily Blunt; the franchise has earned over $700 million worldwide; her books are considered classics of British children's literature. Sam Travers — modern American figure. Cape Travers — Canadian site. Traverse — multiple English geographic features. Travers Beynon — Australian businessman.

Crossing place. P.L.

The name in its native script.

Travers
Transliteration
Travers
Pronunciation
/ ˈtræv.ərz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Travers stands.

Travers does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Traverss before her.

Real people
P.L. Travers
Australian-British Mary Poppins author.
1899 – 1996
In fiction
Mary Poppins
Travers's iconic children's series.
1934

Names connected to Travers.

The number behind Travers.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Travers reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.