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How popular is the name Taylor?
Births per year, rank history and how many Taylors are alive today.
Taylor (male), once a common boys' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 507th in 2025 with 76 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2001, when 909 babies were given the name, the 65th most popular that year. It has declined since 2001; the 2025 figure is roughly 8% of its peak. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 14,000 babies have been named Taylor in England and Wales since 1996. Taylor is one spelling of a name also recorded as Tayler; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Taylor you are most likely to meet is around 24 years old. Half of all Taylors born in England and Wales are between 16 and 27, and there are at least 17,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 5.5% chance that at least one of them will be called Taylor.
How many babies are named Taylor each year?
Includes all spellings: Taylor, Tayler. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Taylor spelling rank?
Where does the Tayler spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Taylor most popular?
Taylor peaked in 2001, when 942 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Taylor?
At least 17,000 people named Taylor in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Taylor?
Most living Taylors are between 16 and 27; the most common age is about 24.
Is Taylor becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2001 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.