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Taylen vs Tayler

American parents have registered 13,756 Taylers since 1880, against 3,440 Taylens. But in 2025 it was Taylen that was commoner, 178 babies to 46.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylen against Tayler, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylen Tayler

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 46 years in which either name was published, Tayler for 33 years and Taylen for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taylen Tayler
Total US births 3,44013,756
Most in one year 1891,024
Babies in 2025 17846
Estimated living today 3,40014,000
Median age today 1028
Peak year 20211993
Best rank 1,291st boys306th girls
Rank in 2025 1,358th5,722nd
First recorded 19901978
Girls / boys 1,234 / 2,20611,169 / 2,587

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Taylers alive today are over 28; half the Taylens are over 10. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Taylen Tayler
England and Wales 161820

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taylen and Tayler.