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Taylen vs Taylor

American parents have registered 443,686 Taylors since 1880, against 3,440 Taylens. Taylor is still ahead, with 1,170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylen against Taylor, 1880 to 2025 0 8k 16k 24k 32k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylen Taylor

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

Taylor has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Taylen had 178 and Taylor had 1,170.

Side by side

  Taylen Taylor
Total US births 3,440443,686
Most in one year 18928,958
Babies in 2025 1781,170
Estimated living today 3,400431,000
Median age today 1028
Peak year 20211993
Best rank 1,291st boys7th girls
Rank in 2025 1,358th403rd
First recorded 19901880
Girls / boys 1,234 / 2,206330,145 / 113,541

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 Taylors 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 Taylor
England and Wales 16121,841

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 Taylor.