Tylor

#5,824 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Tyler

Tylor has been given to 8,527 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #5,824 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 556 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Tylor, 2025

1 in 207,000

Tylor over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tylor over time

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

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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.

Tylor: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tyler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tylor means

Tylor is a variant of Tyler.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tylor → Tyler. The family’s meaning is “tiler”, recorded in English with the source elements tylier.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tyler.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,071 boys were recorded with the name Tylor between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 556 in 1993; its best national rank was #418 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,800 in 2020 to #5,824 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,912 in 2015 to #5,824 in 2025.

In the United States, 456 girls were recorded with the name Tylor between 1986 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1995; its best national rank was #2,922 in 1995.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tylor?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,824
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tylor 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 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tylor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tylors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tylor was born before 1996 — so the typical Tylor is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
56.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (4,576).

Is Tylor 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
+610
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,024
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,912
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.9%
Peak was 1993 (556)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#418
1993

Spellings of Tylor

Tylor is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 67.5% against Tylor's 0.90%.

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 Tylor is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Tylor was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 28,382 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 8,333
  2. 2Oregon1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arizona1 in 12,500
  4. 4Colorado1 in 12,500
  5. 5Washington1 in 12,500
  6. 6Indiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 16,667
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Tylor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Tylor is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Tylor was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,942,861 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Tylor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tylor around the world

Where Tylor 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
    1996–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018
  • Scotland
    2005–2012
    #568
    in 2012
  • Northern Ireland
    2004–2005
    #307
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1997–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    2010–2022
    #6,256
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tylor

People whose public names include Tylor, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tylor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,824
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,024
Best rank ever
#418
1993
Peak year
1993
556 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,071
Count in 2025
16

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,922
1995
Peak year
1995
41 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
456
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tylor

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

Names with a curve like Tylor

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

Sibling names for Tylor

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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