Taylor — #353 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Taylor

The Social Security Administration has registered 329,356 babies named Taylor between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Taylor currently holds the #353 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 21,271 babies received it in a single year. Taylor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 113,137 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Taylor performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 169,038 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Taylor shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27,521 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Taylor in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Taylor 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 329,356 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.