Entry № 9314 · English origin

Saylor Saylor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAY-lor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Sailor; rope-maker"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "sailor; rope-maker".

Saylor is a phonetic variant of Sailor, sometimes derived from an English surname meaning "rope-maker" or "acrobat" (Old French sailleor).

Saylor entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2014 and has been climbing rapidly. Today it sits in the U.S. top 500.

Sailor. A phonetic variant with the sea inside.

The name in its native script.

Saylor
Transliteration
Saylor
Pronunciation
/ ˈseɪ.lər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saylor stands.

Saylor does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Saylors before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Saylor.

The number behind Saylor.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saylor reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.