Traylor

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Traylor has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Traylor, 2000

1 in 630,000

Traylor over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Traylor: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Traylor means

Traylor is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Traylor is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Traylor is pronounced /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Traylor between 1993 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #10,038 in 1993.

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.

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How common is Traylor?

Traylor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000: 1 in 630,000; 6 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only: 1 in 327,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 436,510 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Traylor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 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 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Traylor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Traylors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Traylor was born before 2000 — so the typical Traylor is around 25 today.

Median birth year: 2000; About 25 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Traylor 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2000 (6)
Years since peak: 25; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,038; 1993

Spellings of Traylor

Traylor is not the most common spelling — Taylor is, with 70.4% against Traylor's <0.01%.

Taylor70.4%113,541
Braylon11.7%18,796
Baylor5.6%9,010
Tylor5.0%8,071
Trayvon2.1%3,435
Tayler1.6%2,587
Raylon0.80%1,288
Taylon0.75%1,212

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.

Traylor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,038; 1993
Peak year: 2000; 6 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 2000
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Traylor

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

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Sibling names for Traylor

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

For a sister

Madisen Nada Sydnie Sydni Savana Brigid Jackeline Gabriel

For a brother

Donavon Kevon Keshawn Syed Koby Shamar Johnson Lars

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