Taylon
Masculine
Taylon is given to both — 1,212 boys and 178 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Taylon joins Tay to a -lon ending, and the front comes from Taylor — a trade name about cutting cloth.
How old is the name Taylon?
Taylon first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Taylon alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,200 people named Taylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taylon most popular?
Taylon peaked in 2009, reaching #2287 nationally. Today it ranks #4249, 1,962 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Taylon
Ours, offered as ours. Tay is one of the newer loose syllables in American naming: it came off Taylor in the 1990s, and it now takes endings as freely as Jay and Ky do — Taylon, Tayvon, Taylin, Tayden. That is how the system works: a popular name sheds a front syllable, the syllable becomes available, and a family of new names follows within a decade. The tailor's shears are three removes back.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for the compound. Taylor is documented: from Old French tailleur, a cutter. The -lon ending is a modern American suffix taken from Dylan and Colton. Neither is documented as the source of this name.
Pronouncing Taylon
TAY-lon
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Taylon
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
- 1985
- Most boys named
- 200957 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2287reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- −20.0%24 in 2025, from 30
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.
Taylon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Taylor in English — related form
- Taylen in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana.
Taylons among us
people named Taylon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 71,170 born in 2025 was named Taylon
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 Fredderick test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Taylon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Fredderick climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Fredderick's path sketches the road Taylon is walking now.
Taylon 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
Taylon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Taylon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Tay and Lon are both usable short forms in current use.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Taylon, Taylen and Taylin are all in use and none is dominant.
- It is close to Talon, an English word for a claw.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taylons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Taylon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Taylon in 2025?
- Taylon ranks #4249 among US boy names in 2025, with 24 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Taylon?
- About 1 in every 71,170 US boys born in 2025 was named Taylon — 24 in all.
- Will my child share the name Taylon with classmates?
- Taylon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Taylon
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