Taylen
Taylen is given to both girls and boys: 40 girls and 138 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,767 among girls’ names and #1,361 among boys’, #2,391 among all names counting both); 3,440 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Taylen every year since 2013.
An estimated 3,410 Americans named Taylen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taylen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taylen?
#1,361 among boys’ names, 2025
Taylen rose from #2,050 in 2015 to #1,361 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 36.5 to 80.8 per million.
189 babies in 2021, the peak
Taylen peaked in 2021, when 189 babies were given it (147 boys, #1,297 among boys’ names). The 178 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,767 | 138 | #1,361 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,373 | 117 | #1,520 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,724 | 124 | #1,464 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,696 | 132 | #1,409 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,668 | 147 | #1,297 |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,275 | 111 | #1,517 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,629 | 103 | #1,613 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,866 | 93 | #1,704 |
| 2017 | 70 | #2,542 | 85 | #1,802 |
| 2016 | 62 | #2,794 | 86 | #1,785 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,963 | 70 | #2,050 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,803 | 76 | #1,916 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,703 | 93 | #1,643 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,446 | 71 | #2,000 |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,552 | 71 | #1,963 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,155 | 67 | #2,053 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,864 | 88 | #1,752 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,538 | 62 | #2,180 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,063 | 56 | #2,332 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,847 | 57 | #2,243 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,773 | 49 | #2,391 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,802 | 29 | #3,357 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,294 | 44 | #2,419 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,427 | 35 | #2,743 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,669 | 42 | #2,377 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,277 | 32 | #2,849 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,635 | 32 | #2,713 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,339 | 22 | #3,469 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,284 | 17 | #4,027 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,874 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,545 | 13 | #4,750 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,542 | 9 | #6,301 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,680 | 13 | #4,661 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,657 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,465 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #9,346 |
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 Taylen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,440 Americans recorded as Taylen, 36% are girls and 64% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taylen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taylen, and how old are they?
3,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,440 Americans ever recorded as Taylen. The median Taylen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,117 people named Taylen (906 women and girls, 1,211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,463 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 72 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Taylen born?
The states with the most babies named Taylen are Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,639 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 12 | #422 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #664 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 10 | #914 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,339 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #927 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 7 | #689 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 7 | #780 | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 6 | #515 | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,074 | 0.2× |
Where Taylen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Taylen is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1990 it was given 1.2 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 boys’ 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 Taylen 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 27,304 babies since 1880, Taylen is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 178 of their 494 babies (36%), the second 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 Taylen
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 Taylen and names like it
- Compare Taylen and TalonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTaylen peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taylen since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Taylen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taylen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.