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Taylour vs Taytum

American parents have registered 4,618 Taytums since 1880, against 526 Taylours. Taytum is still ahead, with 445 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Taylour 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 40 years in which either name was published, Taytum for 28 years and Taylour for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taylour Taytum
Total US births 5264,618
Most in one year 43476
Babies in 2025 under 5445
Estimated living today 5204,600
Median age today 295
Peak year 19962023
Best rank 3,237th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked732nd
First recorded 19861992
Girls / boys 497 / 293,997 / 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 Taylours alive today are over 29; half the Taytums are over 5. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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