Tailor
Tailor was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,131 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Tailor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tailor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tailor?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,062, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
78 babies in 1997, the peak
Tailor peaked in 1997, when 78 babies were given it (71 girls, #2,018 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #15,062 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,054 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,326 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,657 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,650 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,729 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,769 | 5 | #13,944 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,388 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,861 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,552 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 18 | #7,109 | 5 | #13,964 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,105 | 6 | #12,085 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,746 | 6 | #12,021 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,519 | 5 | #14,236 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,417 | 8 | #9,751 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,062 | 6 | #12,171 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,350 | 5 | #13,763 |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,020 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,476 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,399 | 6 | #10,704 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,967 | 6 | #10,495 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,306 | 5 | #12,099 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,112 | 5 | #11,907 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,397 | 12 | #5,607 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,724 | 9 | #6,765 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,018 | 7 | #8,004 |
| 1996 | 55 | #2,392 | 7 | #7,865 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,178 | 11 | #5,451 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,425 | 10 | #5,816 |
| 1993 | 68 | #2,039 | 5 | #9,974 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,203 | 12 | #4,820 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,287 | 6 | #8,109 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,802 | 6 | #7,995 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,577 | 8 | #6,153 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,618 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tailor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,131 Americans recorded as Tailor, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tailor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tailor, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,131 Americans ever recorded as Tailor. The median Tailor alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 982 people named Tailor (816 women and girls, 166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 394 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 623 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Tailor?
Tailor is a less common spelling of Taylor: SSA has recorded 1,131 Tailor and 443,686 Taylor since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 465,164 babies since 1880, Tailor is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,228 babies recorded by SSA was a Tailor (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tailor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tailor and names like it
- Compare Tailor and TaylorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTailor peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tailor since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Tailor.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tailor alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.