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Tayler vs Tayvon

American parents have registered 13,756 Taylers since 1880, against 1,556 Tayvons. Tayler is still ahead, with 46 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Tayler Tayvon

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 48 years in which either name was published, Tayler for 45 years and Tayvon for 3 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tayler Tayvon
Total US births 13,7561,556
Most in one year 1,02467
Babies in 2025 4625
Estimated living today 14,0001,500
Median age today 2819
Peak year 19932008
Best rank 306th girls2,062nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,722nd4,139th
First recorded 19781977
Girls / boys 11,169 / 2,5870 / 1,556

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 Tayvons are over 19. That is 9 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 Tayvon
England and Wales 82026

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 Tayvon.