Meaning not yet researched.
Tayler: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #809 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #809 in 1994; #4,236 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Tayler in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,236 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #809.
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Tayler: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #809 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 171 (1994).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Tayler, making it the 4,236th most common boys’ name of the year, up 317 places from #4,553 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 23 boys named Tayler in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #809, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #3,973 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Tayler, making it the 5,893rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 246 places from #6,139 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 20 girls named Tayler in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #306, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 871. For comparison, it was #2,553 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tayler in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 13,756 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 7,726 babies named Tayler.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 183 US boys were named Tayler; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Taylor (443,686 babies since 1880), Tailor (1,131 babies since 1880), Taylar (2,534 babies since 1880) and Taelor (2,437 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Thailer are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Thailer (39).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tayler in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,893 | 25 | #4,236 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,139 | 23 | #4,553 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,534 | 17 | #5,639 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,445 | 21 | #4,829 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,233 | 19 | #5,089 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,865 | 16 | #5,669 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,763 | 11 | #7,574 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,099 | 17 | #5,517 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,595 | 14 | #6,298 |
| 2016 | 75 | #2,461 | 20 | #4,921 |
| 2015 | 71 | #2,553 | 27 | #3,973 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,048 | 28 | #3,771 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,928 | 22 | #4,443 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,779 | 39 | #2,998 |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,654 | 31 | #3,502 |
| 2010 | 156 | #1,455 | 42 | #2,867 |
| 2009 | 208 | #1,206 | 43 | #2,841 |
| 2008 | 212 | #1,206 | 46 | #2,712 |
| 2007 | 242 | #1,083 | 48 | #2,597 |
| 2006 | 290 | #912 | 66 | #2,032 |
| 2005 | 281 | #898 | 71 | #1,834 |
| 2004 | 321 | #794 | 62 | #1,973 |
| 2003 | 354 | #723 | 71 | #1,734 |
| 2002 | 365 | #689 | 64 | #1,814 |
| 2001 | 438 | #584 | 79 | #1,541 |
| 2000 | 512 | #516 | 105 | #1,258 |
| 1999 | 611 | #441 | 105 | #1,214 |
| 1998 | 623 | #424 | 108 | #1,168 |
| 1997 | 668 | #390 | 151 | #908 |
| 1996 | 696 | #383 | 149 | #901 |
| 1995 | 737 | #357 | 162 | #851 |
| 1994 | 830 | #325 | 171 | #809 |
| 1993 | 871 | #306 | 153 | #857 |
| 1992 | 606 | #418 | 151 | #861 |
| 1991 | 441 | #529 | 104 | #1,069 |
| 1990 | 296 | #708 | 93 | #1,115 |
| 1989 | 190 | #941 | 60 | #1,420 |
| 1988 | 125 | #1,209 | 45 | #1,616 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,858 | 27 | #2,208 |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,559 | 21 | #2,593 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,699 | 23 | #2,350 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,977 | 13 | #3,437 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,099 | 10 | #4,113 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,179 | 8 | #4,948 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,549 | 6 | #6,167 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,635 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).