girls:
2.2k births since 1983
#3649 (36th percentile)
boys:
190 births since 1990
#4396 (4th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1983
#5406 (30th percentile)
The name Taelor is the #5,406 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,419 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 30.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,649 (36.1% percentile) for all time with 2,229 births since 1983. For boys, it ranks #4,396 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 190 births since 1990.
Taelor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for girls and 1990 for boys). Birth data for Taelor is available in 39 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (39 years for girls and 23 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Taelor has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Taelor reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 14.2% percentile (ranked #760) with 67 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 67 births per million (ranked 14.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Taelor ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Taelor reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #807) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taelor".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Taelor is pronounced as TAY-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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