Taylor
Taylor is ranked 353rd among girls in 2024 (877 births). Its best rank was 6th, in 1994–1996.
- Rank in 2024
- #353down 93 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 8770.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 199321,271 births
- Best rank
- #6first in 1994
- Since 1951
- 442,493people given the name
The story in the numbers
329,356 girls have been named Taylor in the United States since 1951, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 21,271 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 877 births in 2024, against 21,271 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 51%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 28 of them in the top 100 and 8 in the top 10.
Taylor is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are boys (113,137), most of them born around 1992.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Taylor | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 32 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 626 | |
| 1980s | 13,624 | |
| 1990s | 169,038 | |
| 2000s | 100,998 | |
| 2010s | 38,212 | |
| 2020s | 6,731 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Taylor was the 7th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1993 were Jessica, Ashley, Sarah, Samantha and Emily. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Taylor
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Taelorpeak 1999
- Tailorpeak 1997
- Taylerpeak 1993
- Kierrapeak 1995
- Cerapeak 1995
- Breannapeak 1996
- Katlynnpeak 1999
- Maryssapeak 1997
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.