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Tayler vs Taylynn

American parents have registered 13,756 Taylers since 1880, against 1,415 Taylynns. But in 2025 it was Taylynn that was commoner, 57 babies to 46.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tayler against Taylynn, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tayler Taylynn

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 46 years in which either name was published, Tayler for 39 years and Taylynn for 7 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tayler Taylynn
Total US births 13,7561,415
Most in one year 1,02491
Babies in 2025 4657
Estimated living today 14,0001,400
Median age today 2810
Peak year 19932012
Best rank 306th girls2,095th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd2,933rd
First recorded 19781993
Girls / boys 11,169 / 2,5871,415 / 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 Taylers alive today are over 28; half the Taylynns are over 10. That is 18 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: Tayler and Taylynn.