Saylor

Where Saylor comes from

From Old French sailleor (“dancer, acrobat”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Saylor
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1992
    First appearance
    #13,317 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2022
    Peak, #207
    1,410 babies named Saylor — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Namesakes

No widely known Saylor turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.