Tayla
Tayla was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,260 among girls’ names; 5,467 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,400 Americans named Tayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tayla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tayla is “a female given name, an invention based on Taylor from the 1990s.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tayla?
#4,260 among girls’ names, 2025
Tayla fell from #1,718 in 2015 to #4,260 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.9 to 21.2 per million.
285 babies in 2006, the peak
Tayla peaked in 2006, when 285 girls were given it, #927 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,260 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,745 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,521 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 81 | #2,315 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,383 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 76 | #2,338 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,725 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,188 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 91 | #2,128 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 112 | #1,855 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 123 | #1,718 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 93 | #2,094 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 127 | #1,674 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,468 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 182 | #1,299 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,240 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 212 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 243 | #1,079 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 197 | #1,256 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 285 | #927 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 202 | #1,153 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 175 | #1,246 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 166 | #1,265 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 173 | #1,187 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 179 | #1,164 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 191 | #1,085 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,049 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 206 | #984 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 189 | #1,020 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 150 | #1,201 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 187 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 137 | #1,255 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 156 | #1,139 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 153 | #1,153 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 126 | #1,316 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 94 | #1,600 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,733 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,634 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,608 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,863 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,177 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,831 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,263 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,213 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayla, and how old are they?
5,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,467 Americans ever recorded as Tayla. The median Tayla alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 4,414 people named Tayla (4,402 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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).
Where are babies named Tayla born?
The states with the most babies named Tayla are Massachusetts, Texas and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 443 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 272 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 268 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 225 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 199 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 185 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Rhode Island | 155 | not ranked | 7.1× |
| Ohio | 111 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 111 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Tayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tayla is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1976 it was given 7.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,147 babies since 1880, Tayla is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 1,671 babies (2.0%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Tayla
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 Tayla and names like it
- Compare Tayla and TaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTayla peaked in 2006.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Tayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.