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Tayler

Tayler is a girl's name that peaked in 1993, when it was the 306th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 14,000 Taylers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tayler boys named Tayler

Girls and boys called Tayler

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 11,169 girls and 2,587 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 21 to 25.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 43 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
13,756
Estimated living today
14,000
Median age today
28
Peak year
1993
Best rank
306th
Rank in 2025
5,722nd
First recorded
1978
Girls / boys
11,169 / 2,587

How old the living Taylers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 13,756 babies given the name since 1978, about 14,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Variant of Taylor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Taylers

People named Tayler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Tayler is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tayler is most concentrated in Utah (4.3×), Nevada (2.9×), Oregon (2.6×), Washington (2.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1993

The most popular girls’ names the year Tayler peaked:

All the names of 1993

Tayler elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Tayler 438 878th
France boys Tayler 430 1,016th
England and Wales girls Tayler 382 618th
Scotland girls Tayler 127 251st
Belgium boys Tayler 28 939th
Scotland boys Tayler 17 375th
Ireland girls Tayler 3 842nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Tayler: rank by region

In 2024, Tayler was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Tayler 376 7

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Tayler by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 2 546th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Related names

Tayler against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.