Saylor

15,234 people in the United States were counted with the surname Saylor in the 2020 census, making it the 2,328th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,600.

By the numbers

People: 15,234
Rank: 2,328th
How common: 1 in 19,600
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From Old French sailleor (“dancer, acrobat”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Saylor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Saylor

Morgan Saylor (born 1994)American actress
Steven Saylor (born 1956)American writer
Michael J. Saylor (born 1965)American business executive, entrepreneur, and philanthropist

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

Surnames like Saylor

Also a first name

Saylor has been given to 15,362 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.