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Taelor vs Taelynn

American parents have registered 2,437 Taelors since 1880, against 1,824 Taelynns. But in 2025 it was Taelynn that was commoner, 94 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Taelor against Taelynn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Taelor Taelynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 41 years in which either name was published, Taelor for 25 years and Taelynn for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Taelor Taelynn
Total US births 2,4371,824
Most in one year 141124
Babies in 2025 1294
Estimated living today 2,4001,800
Median age today 258
Peak year 19992019
Best rank 1,349th girls1,687th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd2,117th
First recorded 19831999
Girls / boys 2,247 / 1901,808 / 16

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Taelors alive today are over 25; half the Taelynns are over 8. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Taelor and Taelynn.