Taylyn
Taylyn is given to both girls and boys: 30 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,654 among girls’ names and #8,177 among boys’, #6,614 among all names counting both); 1,004 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taylyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taylyn?
#4,654 among girls’ names, 2025
Taylyn fell from #3,910 in 2015 to #4,654 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 18.7 per million.
58 babies in 2013, the peak
Taylyn peaked in 2013, when 58 babies were given it (52 girls, #3,164 among girls’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 69% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,654 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,691 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,984 | 16.8 |
| 2022 | 40 | #3,822 | 24.4 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,669 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,834 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,022 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,347 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 27 | #5,035 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,977 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,910 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 44 | #3,578 | 24.6 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,164 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,205 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,401 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,741 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,664 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,078 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,083 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,985 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,096 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,363 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,029 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,102 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,678 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,914 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,806 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,496 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,732 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,465 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,470 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,074 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #8,001 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Taylyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,004 Americans recorded as Taylyn, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Taylyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taylyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 996 Americans named Taylyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 719 people named Taylyn (659 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 14,035 babies since 1880, Taylyn is the sixth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 489 babies (8.2%), the fifth 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 Taylyn
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 Taylyn and names like it
- Compare Taylyn and TaylinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTaylyn peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taylyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Taylyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Taylyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.