Taelor
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- TAY-ler
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Taelor is a name of English origin, meaning “tailor”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Taelor mean?
English: spelling of Taylor, an occupational surname
“tailor”
Taylor began as an English surname for a tailor, from Old French tailleur, 'cutter'.
Is Taelor a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Taelor has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US.
How popular is Taelor in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 6 girls.
Taelor in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 1 | #5,353 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 1 | #5,110 |
| 1996 | 6 | #2,469 |
How popular is Taelor in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Taelor, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 1999, with 131 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.
2025 had more girls named Taelor than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Taelor in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 805 girls in the US were given Taelor or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #410, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
In 2017, 80% of the babies named Taelor in the US were girls.
Taelor in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,766 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,766 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,643 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,463 |
| 2011 | 45 | #3,495 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,408 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,773 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,509 |
| 2006 | 69 | #2,602 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,666 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,804 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,390 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,819 |
| 2001 | 111 | #1,640 |
| 2000 | 95 | #1,813 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,347 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,414 |
| 1997 | 123 | #1,384 |
| 1996 | 101 | #1,563 |
| 1995 | 119 | #1,378 |
| 1994 | 111 | #1,430 |
| 1993 | 109 | #1,458 |
| 1992 | 120 | #1,374 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,773 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,595 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,324 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,060 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,455 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
Nicknames for Taelor
- Tae 5 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Taelor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hunter Bailey Parker Madison Chandler Riley Harley Peyton Harper Winter Presley Lily
Other spellings of Taelor
Names related to Taelor
More English names
Evelyn Hudson Ivy Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie Hazel Carter Harrison
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Taelor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/taelor, updated 20 October 2026.