Tayler
Feminine · “tailor”
Tayler is given to both — 11,169 girls and 2,587 boys since 1880. See Tayler as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Tayler is Taylor respelled, and the surname is a job: a tailor cut cloth, and the trade name is one of the commonest surnames in the English-speaking world.
How old is the name Tayler?
Tayler first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Tayler alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 11,000 people named Tayler are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tayler most popular?
Tayler peaked in 1993, reaching #306 nationally. Today it ranks #5722, 5,416 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From taliare to Tayler
The story of Tayler
Occupational surnames were among the earliest in English, and Taylor is among the five commonest in Britain. It crossed into American given-name use in the twentieth century — for boys first and then, from the late 1980s, in far larger numbers for girls. The respellings followed, and Tayler peaked in the late 1990s.
Meaning
tailor, cutter of cloth
From the Old French tailleur, 'cutter', from tailler, 'to cut', and ultimately the Latin taliare. It was an occupational surname, and the trade behind it was one of the most widespread in medieval towns. The meaning is entirely transparent.
How the name formed
- taliare
- tailleur
- Taylor
- Tayler
Related forms: Taylor · Tailleur · Tailor
Pronouncing Tayler
TAY-lur
Two syllables, stress on the first. Tayler and Taylor are said identically.
Nicknames for Tayler
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
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 1993871 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #306reached in 1993
- Change vs 2024
- +5.0%21 in 2025, from 20
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.
Tayler in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Taylor in English — spelling variant
- Tailleur in French — related form
- Tailor in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Georgia, Ohio.
Taylers among us
people named Tayler are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 76,537 born in 2025 was named Tayler
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rene test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tayler's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rene climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rene's path sketches the road Tayler is walking now.
Tayler sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tayler beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tayler in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and completely transparent to any English speaker.
- Tay is a short, clean, modern-sounding form available immediately.
- It belongs to a coherent family of English occupational surnames.
- Taylor is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and will be assumed.
- It is thoroughly unisex and does not signal sex on paper.
- It is closely dated to the 1990s in this spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taylers are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 11,000 people named Tayler are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tayler in 2025?
- Tayler ranks #5722 among US girl names in 2025, with 21 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tayler?
- About 1 in every 76,537 US girls born in 2025 was named Tayler — 21 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tayler with classmates?
- Tayler will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tayler
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