Entry № 10417 · English origin

Taylor Taylor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAY-lor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Cloth-cutter (Taylor Swift, highest-grossing concert tour in history)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "cloth-cutter (taylor swift, highest-grossing concert tour in history)".

Taylor is from the Old French tailleur (cutter) — an occupational surname meaning "tailor." Originally masculine; shifted to majority-feminine in the United States after the 1990s. Time's 2023 Person of the Year.

Cloth-cutter (Taylor Swift, highest-grossing concert tour in history) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Taylor
Transliteration
Taylor
Pronunciation
/ ˈteɪ.lər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Taylor stands.

Taylor 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.

Taylors before her.

Real people
Taylor Swift
American singer-songwriter.
born 1989
Taylor Russell
Canadian actress.
born 1994
In fiction
Taylor
Various 1990s teen films.

Names connected to Taylor.

The number behind Taylor.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Taylor reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.