Taelor
The Story of Taelor
As a girl name
Taelor first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a girl name in 1983, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1999: 131 births, good for #1,349 nationwide. About 47% of every Taelor on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Taelor last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
As a boy name
American parents first put Taelor on the record books as a boy name in 1990, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2000, when 12 Taelors were born — ranking #5,588 that year. About 42% of every Taelor on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Taelor last appeared in the published SSA data in 2017, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 190 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
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About the name Taelor
Taelor is a unisex baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1983 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Taelor's peak popularity came in 1999 when it ranked #1,349. Use the chart and map above to compare Taelor's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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