Travan

surname · Latin script

Meaning: possessing water or milk

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Travan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 264K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

16 people, 2021

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 264K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

possessing water or milk. ocean; cloud; king.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Travan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Travan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia161 in 264K18——
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—2
AR Argentina———Travan11
US United States——5Travan7
IT Italy——listedTravan5

16 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Travan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Trávan

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Travan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202118—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202116#25,535
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Travan come from?
possessing water or milk. ocean; cloud; king. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
What does the name Travan mean?
Recorded meaning: possessing water or milk.
In which country does Travan have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 16 people named Travan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Travan most common?
Travan is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Travan?
In Croatia, the national register counted 16 people named Travan in 2021, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Travan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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