as a Last Name
- 815,041
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Taylor
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: occupational name for a tailor, from Old French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example Schneider, Szabó, and Portnov.
| 12th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 815,041
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Taylor per capita
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