For individuals named Taylor, sharing a moniker with a worldwide famous person is nothing new. These named Travis are being inaugurated into a wierd expertise, as The Washington Publish’s Travis M. Andrews wrote.
And {couples} named Taylor and Travis? Travis and Taylor? Tayvis, if you’ll (or the less-successful Traylor)? The Tays and Travs who’ve already discovered love with one another? What’s this been like for them?
The Washington Publish tracked down a number of Taylor-and-Travises to seek out out. (As for the {couples} on the market named Taylor and Joe, we’re sorry.)
Taylor and Travis King, Denver
As Swift performed her live performance in Denver this summer season, there was a Taylor-and-Travis within the crowd.
The Kings noticed the Eras Tour on July 14 — the week after Swift’s Kansas Metropolis cease, the place Kelce allegedly tried and failed to offer Swift a friendship bracelet together with his quantity on it — and Taylor King logged her third time seeing Swift reside.
The 30-year-old has liked Swift’s music since highschool, and he or she’s dressed up as the opposite Taylor for Halloween 5 instances. When she married a Travis in 2022, she had no concept it might sooner or later give her one other connection to the singer.
“Everybody is aware of that I’m an enormous Taylor Swift fan,” Taylor King stated, “so it’s humorous that I’m now married to a Travis and he or she’s courting a Travis.”
Her Travis has develop into a fan, too — considerably, no less than. He stated he revered Swift’s songwriting and was “blown away” by the spectacle of the Eras Tour.
“I’ve been to a ton of exhibits in my life, and that one, identical to the vitality from the followers and the way into it her fan base was … it was spectacular, I can’t lie,” Travis, 31, stated.
The Kings, who met on Hinge six years in the past and expect their first baby in July, are additionally avid soccer followers. Disillusioned by the Baltimore Ravens’ loss to Kelce’s Chiefs, Travis supported the 49ers within the Tremendous Bowl. His spouse admitted she didn’t actually care who gained however wished to see Swift.
They’re comfortable for the celebs — however primarily, Taylor simply desires Swift to seek out lasting love.
“As a Taylor Swift fan, clearly you hope that she’s comfortable,” she stated. “In the event that they break up, it’ll be a very good album, but when they keep collectively, it’ll be a very good album, too.”
Taylor Adams and Travis Reichenbach, Berkley, Mich.
Travis Reichenbach requested Taylor Adams to marry him on Sept. 22, on the summit of Mount LeConte in Tennessee. Two days later, Swift confirmed as much as her first Chiefs recreation, successfully saying to the world that she was seeing Kelce.
Shortly, the names triggered some confusion amongst mates of Adams and Reichenbach’s who had been discussing “Taylor and Travis” and didn’t understand they had been every speaking about totally different {couples}.
“We’ve gotten confused a pair instances, even simply inside our pal group,” Adams laughed.
Adams, 27, doesn’t establish as a Swiftie, however the {couples}’ similarities have left her hoping the celebs’ relationship works out: “I’m positively rooting for them, simply due to our names,” she stated. “And … they began courting proper after we acquired engaged, so it might be form of cool in the event that they keep collectively.”
Adams, a cardiac sonographer, and Reichenbach, a seat belt validation engineer, started courting in August 2022 — after Reichenbach’s brother and sister-in-law spent practically 9 years attempting to set the pair up. It lastly labored, and so they’ll be married this fall.
They’re devoted soccer followers, and Reichenbach has casually adopted Kelce’s profession for the previous few years. Although he famous he’s “form of sick of the Chiefs,” he stated Kelce’s present life standing was “a win” for Travises in every single place.
“Having a reputation that’s not extraordinarily widespread like Travis, you form of root for them whenever you discover a Travis,” stated Reichenbach, 26. “In several sports activities, it’s like, ‘Oh, I form of hope they do higher than everybody else.’”
Although the couple admits to sometimes discovering Swift’s presence annoying through the NFL season, they stated that complaints about her being proven through the video games are overblown and that they’ve loved watching it convey extra individuals to soccer. They weren’t stunned on the consideration the celebs’ relationship garnered.
“Travis Kelce has all the time been fairly personable and a personality that individuals like within the NFL, after which, it’s Taylor Swift, so,” Reichenbach stated. “The truth that they’re collectively is form of fascinating — that two individuals on the prime of their respective careers are collectively.”
Taylor and Travis Johnson, Plains, Mont.
In 2007, Travis Johnson noticed a teenage Swift carry out a live performance on the College of Idaho, the place he was a scholar. She autographed a poster for him — to Travis, from Taylor.
Years later, Johnson met a Taylor of his personal. The pair matched on Bumble within the fall of 2020, when Johnson moved to Montana to develop into a recreation warden. They had been married three years later.
Taylor Johnson, a 30-year-old occupational therapist, has contended with feedback about her first title “ever since I can bear in mind, ever since Taylor Swift grew to become well-known.” In latest weeks, the reactions to the couple’s names have been humorous, she stated.
An aged acquaintance “known as us ‘the unique TNT’ the opposite day … and I used to be like, how have you learnt what that is?” she stated. However then “I used to be telling one in every of my sufferers about this, and so they had completely no clue what I used to be speaking about.”
The Johnsons aren’t Swifties, although they admire her work — “How are you going to not respect all that she’s carried out?” Taylor stated.
Nor are they intense followers of the NFL. Travis Johnson, 37, is a Seattle Seahawks fan, and Taylor grew up rooting for the New England Patriots, however they don’t spend a lot time watching soccer.
Taylor stated she was supporting the Chiefs final weekend “merely on precept of Taylor and Travis,” however she and her husband can be “fairly Switzerland about it” if Swift and Kelce broke up.
The couple, who acquired married on Sept. 30 in New Hampshire, expect their first baby in Might, a woman.
“Though I’m named Taylor after my mother’s center title,” Johnson famous, “we gained’t be carrying on the Taylor title.”
Taylor Corfield and Travis Eckenswiller, Mount Forest, Ontario
This fall, when Taylor Corfield walks down the aisle to fiancé Travis Eckenswiller, it will likely be to an instrumental model of Swift’s “Enchanted.” A medley of Swift’s music — “Lover,” “Love Story,” and different favorites — will accompany the bridal social gathering earlier than Corfield seems.
A lifelong fan who started listening to Swift’s music at age 9, Corfield has all the time loved sharing a reputation with the singer. She’s identified many Taylors — however she hasn’t met another Taylor-and-Travises.
“My rapid thought after I first heard it’s like, ‘Oh, she discovered a Travis, too? That’s superior!’” stated Corfield, 26.
And he or she’s already hoping to make a {couples}’ costume out of it subsequent Halloween, she stated, if she will be able to persuade Eckenswiller. “I don’t thoughts that concept. I’ll try this,” he replied.
Corfield and Eckenswiller grew to become mates in highschool, however they had been courting different individuals. After they’d each graduated, they started speaking once more, and so they acquired collectively in 2018. They’d a son in 2022, and so they’ll be married Sept. 14.
Corfield is a “fairly die-hard” fan of Swift and, after being unable to get Eras Tour tickets, goals of seeing her carry out in Toronto sooner or later.
Of all Swift’s romantic relationships, “that is positively the one, I feel in all probability due to the title, that I’ve been essentially the most invested in,” she stated.
“I hope they find yourself collectively.”
