Tayla

Where Tayla comes from

The dictionaries list Tayla as a given name — a female given name, an invention based on Taylor from the 1990s — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1976
    First appearance
    #6,611 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Tayla Ford born
    New Zealand wrestler
  3. 1997
    Tayla Harris born
    Australian rules footballer
  4. 2006
    Peak, #926
    285 babies named Tayla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,666.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, an invention based on Taylor from the 1990s.
Namesakes
  • Tayla Harris · Australian rules footballer, born 1997
  • Tayla Ford · New Zealand wrestler, born 1993
  • Tayla Pereira dos Santos · Brazilian association football player, born 1992
  • Tayla Vlaeminck · Australian cricketer, born 1998
  • Tayla Roberts · Australian basketball player, born 1993

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.