Tailor — #13974 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Tailor

The Social Security Administration has registered 970 babies named Tailor between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tailor currently holds the #13974 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 71 babies received it in a single year. Tailor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 161 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tailor performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 507 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tailor shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Tailor in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tailor 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 970 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.