Tayler
Tayler is given to both girls and boys: 21 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,892 among girls’ names and #4,235 among boys’, #5,981 among all names counting both); 13,756 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,500 Americans named Tayler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tayler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tayler mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tayler is “a unisex given name.”
Variant of Taylor.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tayler?
#5,892 among girls’ names, 2025
Tayler fell from #2,553 in 2015 to #5,892 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 39.8 to 13.1 per million.
1,024 babies in 1993, the peak
Tayler peaked in 1993, when 1,024 babies were given it (871 girls, #306 among girls’ names). The 46 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,892 | 25 | #4,235 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,136 | 23 | #4,549 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,529 | 17 | #5,634 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,440 | 21 | #4,825 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,229 | 19 | #5,084 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,863 | 16 | #5,665 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,762 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,098 | 17 | #5,513 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,595 | 14 | #6,294 |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,461 | 20 | #4,919 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 71 | #2,553 | 27 | #3,971 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,048 | 28 | #3,768 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,928 | 22 | #4,441 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,779 | 39 | #2,996 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,654 | 31 | #3,501 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,455 | 42 | #2,866 |
| 2009 | 208 | #1,206 | 43 | #2,840 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,206 | 46 | #2,711 |
| 2007 | 242 | #1,083 | 48 | #2,597 |
| 2006 | 290 | #912 | 66 | #2,031 |
| 2005 | 281 | #898 | 71 | #1,830 |
| 2004 | 321 | #794 | 62 | #1,969 |
| 2003 | 354 | #723 | 71 | #1,731 |
| 2002 | 365 | #689 | 64 | #1,811 |
| 2001 | 438 | #584 | 79 | #1,537 |
| 2000 | 512 | #516 | 105 | #1,255 |
| 1999 | 611 | #441 | 105 | #1,212 |
| 1998 | 623 | #424 | 108 | #1,165 |
| 1997 | 668 | #390 | 151 | #906 |
| 1996 | 696 | #383 | 149 | #899 |
| 1995 | 737 | #357 | 162 | #848 |
| 1994 | 830 | #325 | 171 | #807 |
| 1993 | 871 | #306 | 153 | #855 |
| 1992 | 606 | #418 | 151 | #858 |
| 1991 | 441 | #529 | 104 | #1,063 |
| 1990 | 296 | #707 | 93 | #1,111 |
| 1989 | 190 | #938 | 60 | #1,415 |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,208 | 45 | #1,611 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,857 | 27 | #2,204 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,558 | 21 | #2,590 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,698 | 23 | #2,349 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,976 | 13 | #3,435 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,098 | 10 | #4,111 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,177 | 8 | #4,946 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,548 | 6 | #6,165 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,633 | 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 Tayler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,756 Americans recorded as Tayler, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tayler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tayler, and how old are they?
13,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,756 Americans ever recorded as Tayler. The median Tayler alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 11,972 people named Tayler (9,744 women and girls, 2,228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,040 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 894 |
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 Tayler born?
The states with the most babies named Tayler are California, Texas and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,391 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 735 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 561 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 533 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 510 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 423 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 393 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 369 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 357 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 341 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Tayler is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tayler is most over-represented in Utah: since 1978 it was given 2.1 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 Tayler 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 465,164 babies since 1880, Tayler is the second most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 1,228 babies (3.7%), again the second most given.
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 Tayler
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 Tayler and names like it
- Compare Tayler and TaylorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTayler peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tayler since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Tayler.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tayler alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.