Taylor

Meaning: Tailor, maker of clothes
Origin: English

Boy's name · #685 in the US (2025) · 90s wave

27% boys · 73% girls — About 73% of babies named Taylor in recent years have been girls. Taylor →

Popularity over time

Taylor's best rank, #51, came in 1993; it has stepped well back to #685 today. Roughly 114,000 boys have been named Taylor since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 34 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#246 in New Zealand (2025) · #267 in Scotland (2025) · #312 in Ecuador (2025) · #514 in England & Wales (2025) · #701 in France (2025) · #1,044 in Ireland (2025) · #1,328 in Belgium (2025) · #2,622 in Switzerland (2025) · #884 in Canada (2024).

Famous Taylors

Taylor Lautner — American actor
Taylor Hawkins — American drummer (1972–2022)
Taylor Kitsch — Canadian actor and model
Taylor Fritz — American tennis player (born 1997)
Taylor Kinney — American actor and model (born 1981)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 751,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Zachary Taylor — President of the United States from 1849 to 1850
Elizabeth Taylor — British-American actress (1932–2011)
Roger Taylor — English musician, drummer of Queen (born 1949)

In stories & tradition

Taylor Doosey — Gilmore Girls (TV series)
Taylor^pt — Planet of the Apes (film)

What Taylors become

Among 1,092 notable people named Taylor:

Sports figures appear 3.05× more often than among typical names — e.g. Taylor Fritz, American tennis player (born 1997).

Twin names

A popular twin pairing with Taylor is Tyler for a boy.

Similar names: Taylin · Devon · Tanner · Chandler · Trevor · Conor

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