Tailor
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 13 babies a year in the US.
Tailor by the numbers
Tailor was given to 13 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 71 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Tailor
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 Tailor. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Taylortailor, one who cuts cloth3,263 in the US (2017)
- Taelor30 in the US (2017)
- Tylorone who tiles; variant of Tyler32 in the US (2017)
- Tabordrum or percussion instrument17 in the US (2017)
- Taiwofirst of twins; the one who tastes the world first7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taylourtailor; form of taylor6 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Tailor
Names that are said the same way as Tailor, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Tailor
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