Travers

A surname originating as an occupation.

Proper noun

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A place name:

    1. A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.

    2. An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.

    3. A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.

Origin

From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.

Related

Travis