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Taylore vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 678 Taylores. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taylore against Taytum, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taylore Taytum

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 43 years in which either name was published, Taytum for 25 years and Taylore for 18 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taylore Taytum
Total US births 6784,618
Most in one year 54476
Babies in 2025 under 5445
Estimated living today 6704,600
Median age today 285
Peak year 19982023
Best rank 2,530th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked732nd
First recorded 19811992
Girls / boys 678 / 03,997 / 621

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 Taylores alive today are over 28; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 23 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.

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