Taylor

At the 2020 census, 723,758 Americans bore the surname Taylor — 17th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 413.

By the numbers

People: 723,758
Rank: 17th
How common: 1 in 413
Per 100,000: 242.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 62.8%
Black, not Hispanic 27.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Taylor

Zachary Taylor (1784–1850)president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)British-American actress
Roger Taylor (born 1949)English musician, drummer of Queen
Joseph Hooton Taylor (born 1941)American astronomer
Richard E. Taylor (1929–2018)Canadian physicist
Anya Taylor-Joy (born 1996)actress
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915)American mechanical engineer
Charles Taylor (born 1948)22nd president of Liberia

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

Also a first name

Taylor has been given to 443,686 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1993. 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.