Tayler

Where Tayler comes from

Variant of Taylor.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tayler
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #8,562 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1989
    Tayler Wiles born
    American road racing cyclist
  3. 1990
    Tayler Hill born
    American basketball player
  4. 1993
    Peak, #306
    871 babies named Tayler — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #686.
  6. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes
  • Tayler Wiles · American road racing cyclist, born 1989
  • Tayler Hill · American basketball player, born 1990
  • Tayler Persons · American basketball player, born 1995
  • Tayler Marshall · British actor, born 2000
  • Tayler Reid · New Zealand triathlete, born 1996

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.