Taylar
Feminine · “tailor”
Taylar is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 2,507 girls against 27 boys since 1880.
A tailor cuts cloth, and the word is French rather than English. It came in with the Normans, displaced whatever the Anglo-Saxons had called the trade, and became one of the commonest surnames in the language — which is why Taylor is everywhere and the older English word is gone.
How old is the name Taylar?
Taylar first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Taylar alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 2,500 people named Taylar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taylar most popular?
Taylar peaked in 1993, reaching #1202 nationally. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From taillour to Taylar
The story of Taylar
The ending is the interesting part of this spelling. Occupational names in English end in -er or -or: Baker, Miller, Turner, Taylor, Sawyer, Chandler. Not one of them ends in -ar, because that is not how English writes the ending; -ar belongs to Latin borrowings like scholar and pillar. Writing Taylar therefore puts the name into a group it does not belong to and signals, to anyone reading carefully, that this is a given name rather than a family one. That may be exactly the point.
Meaning
tailor, cutter of cloth
The Old French taillour comes from a verb meaning to cut. Occupational surnames are among the commonest in every European language, and this is one of the most frequent in English.
How the name formed
- taillour
- Taylor
- Taylar
Pronouncing Taylar
TAY-lur
Two syllables with the weight at the front. Taylor and Taylar are said identically.
Nicknames for Taylar
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1984
- Most girls named
- 1998148 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1202reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%5 in 2024, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Taylar in other languages
Taylars among us
people named Taylar are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Taylar sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is said correctly by everyone on first hearing.
- The ar ending marks it visually as a given name rather than a surname.
- The meaning is concrete and easy to explain.
- Taylor is the standard spelling and will be written instead, every time.
- The spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls in the United States.
- It is heavily generation-marked to the closing decades of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taylars are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Taylar are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Taylar in 2025?
- Taylar is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Taylar with classmates?
- Taylar will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More T names
The most-given names starting with T, all years combined.
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