Travers.
A surname originating as an occupation.
Meaning & usage
A surname originating as an occupation.
A place name: A hamlet, virtually a ghost town, in Vulcan County, Alberta, Canada, named after a railway surveyor.
A place name: An unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri, United States, named after legislator O. H. Traverse.
A place name: A former municipality in Val-de-Travers municipality, Neuchâtel canton, Switzerland.
Where this word comes from
From Anglo-Norman traverser (“to cross”), an occupational name for a toll collector. In Ireland, used as an Anglicization of Irish Ó Treabhair.
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