How rare is the name Travon?

4,797 people in the United States have the first name Travon, about 1 in 62,963. It ranks #4,042 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TRAVON

#4,042

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,797
About
1 in 62,963
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,797 people named Travon, 87.6% reported their origin as Black, 6.2% as two or more races and 2.8% as White. 98.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Travon peaked in 1995, when 373 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19672025
Peak year
1995
Births that year
373
In 2025*
32 ▼91%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,678 babies have been given the name since 1967. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Travon by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,430. The largest share of babies named Travon, 47.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#13,98612
1970s#5,040220
1980s#2,589759
1990s#1,4302,619
2000s#2,0172,053
2010s#4,179779
2020s#6,625236
Generation X 1965–804.1%
Millennials 1981–9637.7%
Generation Z 1997–1247.7%
2013 and later10.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Travon is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Travon has been most common in Maryland (4.5×), Florida (3×), and Louisiana (2.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.12×).

4,896 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Travon

1 other first name also has 4,797 people.

#4,042 Merritt · 4,797

Either side of Travon

#4,040 Reem · 4,798#4,042 Merritt · 4,797#4,044 Lylah · 4,796#4,045 Tae · 4,793

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Travon, most common first.

#2,370 Trevon · 10,587#6,486 Trayvon · 2,470#8,346 Travion · 1,742#15,735 Traveon · 727#16,455 Traven · 685#19,527 Traevon · 540#22,868 Travin · 432#35,884 Treavon · 223

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