Taylore
Feminine · “a tailor”
Taylore adds a silent letter to an occupational surname, which is one of the commonest moves American naming makes when it wants a surname to read as a woman's name. The trade itself has left a piece of vocabulary in Shakespeare that almost nobody now gets.
How old is the name Taylore?
Taylore first appears in US birth records in 1981 — 44 years ago. The typical Taylore alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 700 people named Taylore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Taylore most popular?
Taylore peaked in 1997, reaching #2450 nationally. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tailleur to Taylore
The story of Taylore
A tailor's pressing iron was called a goose, because the handle curved over like a bird's neck, and the trade said gooses rather than geese for the plural. The Porter in Macbeth, drunk and pretending to be the gatekeeper of hell, admits an equivocator and then a tailor who stole cloth out of a French hose, and tells him to come in and roast his goose — which is a joke on three levels at once and lands for almost no modern audience. Tailoring is full of this vocabulary: a sleeve board, a ham, a clapper, a dolly, all of them named for shapes. The goose survived into the twentieth century in trade catalogs, weighing up to twenty pounds and heated on a stove. A word for a bird, a word for a tool, and a joke that needed neither explaining in sixteen-oh-six.
Meaning
a tailor
An occupational surname from the French word for the trade, which displaced whatever English had called it before. The added final e is a modern American device and carries nothing; it marks the spelling as a name rather than the noun.
How the name formed
- tailleur
- Taylor
- Taylore
Pronouncing Taylore
TAY-lur
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The added e is completely silent; it is visible on the page and nowhere else.
Nicknames for Taylore
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
- 1981
- Most girls named
- 199854 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2450reached in 1997
- Change vs 2016
- +40.0%7 in 2018, 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.
Taylores among us
people named Taylore 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
Taylore 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
- The sound is entirely familiar, so nobody has to be taught it.
- Two syllables with front stress is easy to say and quick.
- The meaning is a real trade with a documented history.
- Taylor is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and this will be corrected constantly.
- The added letter is silent, so the spelling must be given aloud every time.
- The surname is very common as a first name, so the sound is not distinctive.
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Frequently asked
- How many Taylores are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Taylore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Taylore in 2025?
- Taylore is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Taylore with classmates?
- Taylore will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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