How do you feel about this boy name?

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Travis

and what type of person comes to mind, as a lad or an adult?

I quite like it. I taught a Travis about 10 years ago so he'd be in his early 20s now but he's the only one I've ever taught. It does bring to mind that 'turn' song by the band Travis! But that's not a bad thing. I think it's a good name to grow into.

Um, I think it’s a bit of a downmarket name, TBH.

Travis screams Jeremy Kyle guest to me, sorry.
There was a Travis in my form at high school and he fit that bill.

I’ve always associated it with the kind of 70s/80s disco vibe for some reason. I imagine someone called Travis dresses like this

The 90s band

Initial thought is a farmer.

It reminds me of a bit in Irma Kurtz’s book about travelling around the US on greyhound buses, where an exhausted, visibly poor, hillbilly teenage mother on a long overnight trip, keeps saying to her obstreperous child, ‘Where’s your coat at, Travis? Where’s your hat at, Travis? Travis, you are TROUBLE!’

I like it, because I like the band

The 90s band.

I wouldn’t have said Jeremy Kyle at all. Perhaps it’s a regional thing!

I think it's a surfer type name like someone off Neighbours

I think of an american hillbilly. Or someone scottish, probably because of the band. But mainly a hillbilly with no teeth. Sorry.

Redneck

I agree with the Jeremy Kyle comment.

@Frogcorset

It reminds me of a bit in Irma Kurtz’s book about travelling around the US on greyhound buses, where an exhausted, visibly poor, hillbilly teenage mother on a long overnight trip, keeps saying to her obstreperous child, ‘Where’s your coat at, Travis? Where’s your hat at, Travis? Travis, you are TROUBLE!’

Sorry to derail but what book is that Frogcorset? Love books about travelling round America! Sorry OP, as you were

I've heard of a baby Travis recen

I've heard of a baby Travis recently. It's ok.

I know a Travis in his 20’s. He’s lovely.

@suckingonchillidogs it’s called the great american bus ride

I quite like Travers

Weirdly I think of the doctor on Grey's Anatomy that had a baby with Amelia

Dave Lee Travis. Not a positive association.

Chavvy. Sorry!

I see a turn of the milennium emo kid with long greasy hair, grey skin, baggy shapeless khaki and black clothing, depressed demeanour, who only grunts to communicate and who has a filthy bedroom littered with dirty laundry, unwashed plates and cups, leftover pizza boxes and an awful stench of BO and mould. Travis' mother cannot wait for him to leave home.

You'll get derogatory comments on here as it's not a hooray henry type name. It doesn't fall into Middle Class safety net or unique faux hippie.
I like it.

[quote bimbimbap]@suckingonchillidogs it’s called the great american bus ride[/quote]
Yes, and it's brilliant, if you like low-key travelogues about middle-aged women, armed with only a notebook, a couple of novels and a change of underwear, taking fairly rough longhaul buses around the US. It's as much about the people she sits next to and gets talking to generally poorer people as it is about the destinations, and IK herself is very cool. Thoroughly recommended.