Taylor
About 443,686 American babies have been named Taylor since 1880, most of them around 1993. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 403rd. About 431,000 Taylors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Taylor boys named Taylor
Girls and boys called Taylor
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Taylor crossed from boys to girls in 1990, and has stayed there for 36 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 87% girls, and in 2025 it was 66%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 137 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
- 443,686
- Estimated living today
- 431,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 7th
- Rank in 2025
- 403rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 330,145 / 113,541
How old the living Taylors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 443,686 babies given the name since 1880, about 431,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 73,000 of them are children and 1,200 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
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Taylors
- Taylor Lautner (born 1992)American actor
- Taylor Momsen (born 1993)American actress, singer and model
- Taylor Hawkins (1972–2022)American drummer
- Taylor Schilling (born 1984)American actress
- Taylor Kitsch (born 1981)Canadian actor and model
- Taylor Townsend (born 1996)US female tennis player
- Taylor Fritz (born 1997)American tennis player
- Taylor Dayne (born 1962)American pop singer
People named Taylor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Taylor is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Taylor is most concentrated in Nevada (2.1×), Utah (1.9×), Alaska (1.8×), Idaho (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular girls’ names the year Taylor peaked:
Taylor elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Taylor | 14,427 | 65th |
| England and Wales girls | Taylor | 7,414 | 103rd |
| Scotland girls | Taylor | 2,269 | 36th |
| Scotland boys | Taylor | 1,961 | 64th |
| New Zealand girls | Taylor | 1,499 | 29th |
| France boys | Taylor | 1,365 | 684th |
| New Zealand boys | Taylor | 1,356 | 43rd |
| Ireland girls | Taylor | 1,146 | 98th |
| France girls | Taylor | 555 | 1,480th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Taylor | 483 | 73rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Taylor | 389 | 79th |
| Ireland boys | Taylor | 370 | 160th |
| Italy girls | Taylor | 180 | — |
| Belgium boys | Taylor | 102 | 666th |
| Switzerland boys | Taylor | 57 | 803rd |
| Switzerland girls | Taylor | 31 | 1,180th |
| Belgium girls | Taylor | 28 | 996th |
| Poland boys | Taylor | 6 birth registrations | 729th |
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.
Taylor: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Taylor | 31 | 0.002% | 675th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Taylor | 12 | 0.001% | 694th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Taylor | 26 | 0.006% | 387th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Taylor | 17 | 0.004% | 517th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Taylor | 2 | 0.003% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Taylor: rank by region
In 2023, Taylor was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Taylor | 418 | 6 |
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.
Taylor by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 451st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Taylor among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Taylor | 10 | 24 |
| Finland girls | Taylor | 8 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Taylor lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 244 men called Taylor were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Taylor | 17 | 0.032 | 2,311 |
| Palmas, Las | Taylor | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Taylor | 8 | 0.026 | 1,973 |
| Toledo | Taylor | 10 | 0.026 | 1,612 |
| León | Taylor | 5 | 0.023 | 1,649 |
| Tarragona | Taylor | 6 | 0.014 | 3,191 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Taylor against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.