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**. **A top-10 US baby name for girls from 1993 to 2002, peaking at #5 in 1996**. **Taylor Swift (born 1989)** — **American singer-songwriter; her Eras Tour (March 2023 – December 2024) became the highest-grossing concert tour in history at over $2.07 billion, the first tour ever to cross the $1 billion mark**. **14 Grammy Awards including a record four Album of the Year wins**; **only artist ever to win Album of the Year four times**. **Time's 2023 Person of the Year**. **Taylor Sheridan, Taylor Russell, Taylor Tomlinson** — among hundreds of public Taylors of the Swift generation.
Subject of countless cultural studies and her ongoing re-recordings project (Taylor's Version).
Taylor reduces to three — the number of highest-grossing tour.