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Taelor

#8,810 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Taelor has been given to 2,437 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #8,810 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 131 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Taelor, 2025

1 in 276,000

Taelor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Taelor over time

In 2025, Taelor went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19832025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Taelor: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taelor means

Taelor is a given name.

The naming story behind Taelor

Wikidata records Taelor as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q84351088, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,247 girls were recorded with the name Taelor between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 131 in 1999; its best national rank was #1,355 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,897 in 2020 to #8,810 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,835 in 2015 to #8,810 in 2025.

In the United States, 190 boys were recorded with the name Taelor between 1990 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2000; its best national rank was #5,582 in 1992.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Taelor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,810
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taelor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taelor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taelors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taelor was born before 1999 — so the typical Taelor is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
47.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,247
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 47.2% of all recorded uses (1,060).

Is Taelor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+8,600
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+87
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,975
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.2%
Peak was 1999 (131)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,355
1999

Spellings of Taelor

Taelor is not the most common spelling — Taylor is, with 88.2% against Taelor's 0.60%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Taelor is used

Across 1910–2025, Taelor was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 120,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Taelor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taelor around the world

Where Taelor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–1999
    #3,900
    in 1999
  • Canada
    1991–2007
    #2,743
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taelor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,810
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 87
Best rank ever
#1,355
1999
Peak year
1999
131 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,247
Count in 2025
12

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,582
1992
Peak year
2000
12 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
190
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taelor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Taelor

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Taelor, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JordenKaytlynAnyssaKirstynJazzmineKaytlinMercedezKyanaKeanaElexisDestinieKatlynn

Sibling names for Taelor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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