Taylor - Origin and Meaning of the name

The girl name Taylor [ 2 syll. tay-lor, ta-yl-or ] is also used as a boy name, though it is more frequently a girl name. It is pronounced TEYLer ^KEY. Taylor is of Old French origin and it is used mainly in English. Developed from taillour which means 'tailor' ; tlere which means 'to cut'. The first name is derived from the surname, itself originally from the job title for one who works as a tailor, of the Old French 'taillour' and the Late Latin 'tlere'. The name was borne by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). See Taylor for more info.

A form of Taylor is the English Tayler.

Taylor is very popular as a baby girl name. The name grew in popularity from the 1970s up to the 1990s; prior to that, it was of only very modest use. Its usage peaked in 1993 with 1.080% of baby girls being named Taylor. It was #7 in rank then. The baby name has experienced a drop in frequency since then. In 2007, it ranked at #24 with a usage of 0.378%, but it was nevertheless the most widely used among all girl names in its family. Although Taylor is used more commonly as a girl name today, there was a period prior to 1989 that it was more popular with boys. After 1990, increasingly the name became more popular with girls than with boys. In 2006, 6 times more girls than boys were given the name Taylor.

Baby names that sound like Taylor include the English names Tayler and Tyler.

^KEY: Pronunciation for Taylor: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"

A famous person named Taylor is Country Singer, Taylor Swift, born 13 December 1989, Reading, Pennsylvania.

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