Taylan
Taylan is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,823 among girls’ names and #4,687 among boys’, #8,060 among all names counting both); 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Taylan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taylan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Taylan mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Taylan is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Taylan?
#4,687 among boys’ names, 2025
Taylan fell from #2,955 in 2015 to #4,687 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 12.9 per million.
68 babies in 2010, the peak
Taylan peaked in 2010, when 68 babies were given it (47 boys, #2,628 among boys’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,823 | 22 | #4,687 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,074 | 25 | #4,305 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,444 | 29 | #3,865 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,511 | 29 | #3,862 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,069 | 19 | #5,083 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,479 | 36 | #3,193 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,283 | 29 | #3,785 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,096 | 30 | #3,690 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,868 | 37 | #3,187 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,779 | 32 | #3,515 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,081 | 40 | #2,955 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,016 | 29 | #3,679 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,107 | 35 | #3,177 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,424 | 29 | #3,696 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,085 | 46 | #2,660 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,363 | 47 | #2,628 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,924 | 45 | #2,746 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,519 | 35 | #3,271 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,750 | 38 | #3,080 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,549 | 41 | #2,822 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,838 | 30 | #3,374 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,666 | 22 | #4,111 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,543 | 22 | #3,958 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,233 | 16 | #4,882 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,143 | 16 | #4,859 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,452 | 29 | #3,059 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,273 | 16 | #4,508 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,065 | 21 | #3,581 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,730 | 12 | #5,241 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,760 | 9 | #6,430 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 10 | #5,865 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #8,679 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,563 | 6 | #8,587 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,333 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,464 |
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 Taylan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,258 Americans recorded as Taylan, 29% are girls and 71% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taylan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taylan, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Taylan. The median Taylan alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,031 people named Taylan (302 women and girls, 729 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 667 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 521 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 27,304 babies since 1880, Taylan is the sixth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 494 babies (6.1%), the fourth 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 Taylan
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 Taylan and names like it
- Compare Taylan and TalonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaylan peaked in 2010.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taylan since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Taylan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Taylan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taylan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.