Tailer — unisex name
193 babies named Tailer in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
66% of everyone ever named Tailer was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Tailer in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tailer
The Social Security Administration has registered 193 babies named Tailer between 1991 and 2006, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tailer currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 25 babies received it in a single year. Tailer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15 additional births since 1997.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tailer performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Tailer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tailer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 193 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tailer at a glance
Last recorded 2006Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tailer popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2006–1991
- Peak year (1998)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2006.
193 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 25 births in a single year.
Tailer popularity over time — boys
15 total births recorded since 1997 (Tailer as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Tailer accounts for 7% of total recorded use across both genders.
Tailer by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 127 births that decade — 66% of Tailer's all-time total
Tailer decade highlights
- Peak decade 127 births
- Runner-up 66 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Tailer's strongest decade
127 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 66% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.