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Tailor vs Tailynn

American parents have registered 1,131 Tailors since 1880, against 941 Tailynns. But in 2025 it was Tailynn that was commoner, 34 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tailor against Tailynn, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tailor Tailynn

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 38 years in which either name was published, Tailor for 22 years and Tailynn for 16 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tailor Tailynn
Total US births 1,131941
Most in one year 7868
Babies in 2025 under 534
Estimated living today 1,100930
Median age today 2611
Peak year 19972013
Best rank 2,002nd girls2,597th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,172nd
First recorded 19881994
Girls / boys 970 / 161941 / 0

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 Tailors alive today are over 26; half the Tailynns are over 11. That is 15 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: Tailor and Tailynn.