Tailey

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
10
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Tailey by the numbers

Tailey was given to 10 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 11 babies in 2001, making it a 2000s name.

What we can tell you about Tailey

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tailey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Taisley9 in the US (2017)
  • Tayley7 in the US (2017)
  • Talley6 in the US (2017)
  • Tillymighty in battle; diminutive of Matilda264 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Tayleeone who cuts cloth; a modern respelling of Taylor98 in the US (2017)
  • Tilleytillage land; cultivated field15 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Tailey

Names that are said the same way as Tailey, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Names about as common as Tailey

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