girls:
456 births since 1986
#5260 (8th percentile)
boys:
8k births since 1961
#1315 (71st percentile)
overall:
8.5k births since 1961
#2931 (62nd percentile)
The name Tylor is the #2,931 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,496 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 62.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,315 (71.3% percentile) for all time with 8,040 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,260 (7.9% percentile) for all time with 456 births since 1986.
Tylor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Tylor is available in 59 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (59 years for boys and 27 years for girls). 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 Tylor has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tylor reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 49.9% percentile (ranked #386) with 252 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 269 births per million (ranked 49.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tylor ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tylor reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #813) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tylor".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tylor. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Tylor is pronounced as TAI-ler, which has 2 syllables.
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