girls:
328.4k births since 1951
#116 (98th percentile)
boys:
112.7k births since 1880
#279 (94th percentile)
overall:
441.2k births since 1880
#155 (98th percentile)
The name Taylor is the #155 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 441,156 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #116 (98.0% percentile) for all time with 328,443 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #279 (93.9% percentile) for all time with 112,713 births since 1880.
Taylor has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1951 for girls).
The name Taylor has been given predominantly to girls, with 74.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 71.1% of babies named Taylor were girls. Interestingly, until around 1991, the name was more popular for boys (61.3% boys from 1880 to 1990), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (79.6% girls from 1991 to 2023).
For girls, Taylor reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 99.4% percentile (ranked #6) with 9,990 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 10,789 births per million (ranked 99.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Taylor ranks #249 for girls (73.8% percentile) with 677 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Taylor reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,722 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 3,925 births per million (ranked 93.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1994, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Taylor ranks #505 for boys (44.6% percentile) with 263 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taylor".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Taylor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Taylor is pronounced as TAY-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T EY1 L ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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