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Tayler vs Taytum

American parents have registered 13,756 Taylers since 1880, against 4,618 Taytums. But in 2025 it was Taytum that was commoner, 445 babies to 46.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tayler Taytum

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 32 years and Taytum for 14 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tayler Taytum
Total US births 13,7564,618
Most in one year 1,024476
Babies in 2025 46445
Estimated living today 14,0004,600
Median age today 285
Peak year 19932023
Best rank 306th girls679th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722nd732nd
First recorded 19781992
Girls / boys 11,169 / 2,5873,997 / 621

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 Taytums are over 5. That is 23 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Tayler Taytum
England and Wales 8203

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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