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Taylor Surname

345th Most Commonsurname in the World

Approximately 1,523,411 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in: United StatesHighest density in: Turks and Caicos Islands

Taylor Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an occupation. -From the Olde French, tailleur, a cutter of cloth. It is now understood that tailor shall be the trade-name, and Taylor and Tayler the surname. The early rolls are full of instances, and as a result Taylor is the fourth commonest patronymic in England, giving precedence only to Smith, Jones, and Williams.

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Taylor Surname Distribution Map

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Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	896,060	1:405	11
England	293,387	1:190	3
Australia	89,433	1:302	6
Canada	71,525	1:515	11
Sierra Leone	27,440	1:258	45
Scotland	24,834	1:216	13
South Africa	17,769	1:3,049	402
Jamaica	16,020	1:179	27
Wales	12,985	1:238	22
New Zealand	8,048	1:563	5
Liberia	7,063	1:624	83
Ireland	3,826	1:1,231	249
Northern Ireland	3,799	1:486	60
Bahamas	3,731	1:105	16
Thailand	3,477	1:20,316	1,699
Nigeria	2,703	1:65,536	4,808
Panama	2,601	1:1,504	252
Nicaragua	2,403	1:2,506	372
Trinidad and Tobago	2,396	1:569	61
Spain	1,955	1:23,914	2,543
Germany	1,685	1:47,778	6,260
Brazil	1,684	1:127,123	4,835
France	1,524	1:43,584	5,501
Barbados	1,417	1:203	36
Argentina	1,398	1:30,575	2,571
Mexico	1,333	1:93,118	3,617
Haiti	987	1:10,825	1,119
Costa Rica	956	1:5,000	390
Zimbabwe	945	1:16,337	2,368
Dominican Republic	940	1:11,099	886
Fiji	911	1:982	114
Philippines	825	1:122,713	21,089
Ecuador	800	1:19,882	2,814
Netherlands	675	1:25,018	4,061
Colombia	671	1:71,198	3,085
Guyana	603	1:1,264	204
Honduras	571	1:15,440	758
India	509	1:1,507,005	56,614
Belgium	474	1:24,255	3,828
Sweden	455	1:21,641	1,794
Japan	452	1:282,841	10,792
Switzerland	426	1:19,279	3,130
Portugal	425	1:24,514	1,625
Papua New Guinea	362	1:22,524	2,449
Micronesia	361	1:294	61
Turks and Caicos Islands	360	1:95	21
Vanuatu	354	1:744	168
Russia	351	1:410,607	39,463
Jersey	344	1:288	3
Guernsey	323	1:200	7
Denmark	322	1:17,530	1,721
Cuba	321	1:35,896	1,697
Morocco	307	1:112,300	19,480
Ghana	303	1:89,177	9,183
Malaysia	295	1:99,980	6,858
Chile	290	1:60,746	2,585
China	280	1:4,883,291	453
Israel	278	1:30,783	4,369
Saint Kitts and Nevis	252	1:219	46
Isle of Man	238	1:361	26
Venezuela	220	1:137,291	4,394
Tanzania	217	1:243,971	19,796
Norway	202	1:25,457	3,418
Swaziland	202	1:6,427	396
Cyprus	195	1:4,538	550
Italy	193	1:316,874	39,056
United Arab Emirates	181	1:50,620	5,031
United States Virgin Islands	166	1:665	83
Belize	164	1:2,168	477
Bahrain	162	1:8,325	1,494
Saudi Arabia	159	1:194,062	29,524
Greece	157	1:70,572	11,857
Austria	152	1:56,023	8,768
Cayman Islands	145	1:441	72
Guatemala	145	1:110,915	3,054
Namibia	140	1:17,210	3,052
Bermuda	138	1:473	63
Saint Lucia	131	1:1,365	255
Botswana	127	1:17,220	3,386
Hong Kong	125	1:58,684	1,200
Kuwait	116	1:32,765	4,071
Guam	115	1:1,392	196
Kenya	114	1:405,087	22,588
Oman	110	1:33,527	2,360
Grenada	108	1:1,005	186
Indonesia	106	1:1,247,634	87,669
Czechia	89	1:119,477	19,340
Iraq	84	1:416,924	7,373
Antigua and Barbuda	76	1:1,305	228
Poland	73	1:520,668	50,348
Ivory Coast	72	1:320,434	11,797
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	70	1:1,609	333
Malta	66	1:6,519	434
Gibraltar	63	1:539	68
Hungary	61	1:160,923	14,302
Finland	51	1:107,778	10,804
South Korea	49	1:1,045,720	321
Peru	43	1:739,166	16,774
Estonia	42	1:31,472	5,782
Vietnam	42	1:2,205,858	2,205
American Samoa	41	1:1,360	222
Afghanistan	39	1:824,441	8,487
Lesotho	35	1:58,073	8,518
Singapore	34	1:161,991	6,884
Solomon Islands	34	1:17,060	3,300
Monaco	32	1:1,158	23
Uruguay	32	1:107,242	10,337
Kazakhstan	30	1:589,417	41,433
Uzbekistan	27	1:1,145,524	21,534
Luxembourg	26	1:22,329	4,651
Pakistan	26	1:6,870,919	39,117
Suriname	26	1:21,254	4,689
Iran	25	1:3,071,301	92,215
Belarus	24	1:395,877	40,412
Northern Mariana Islands	22	1:2,481	276
Qatar	22	1:107,182	11,536
Iceland	21	1:18,100	1,499
New Caledonia	21	1:13,153	3,514
Senegal	21	1:694,254	2,585
Turkey	20	1:3,891,071	97,520
Zambia	20	1:792,496	27,807
Egypt	19	1:4,838,724	48,082
Montserrat	19	1:260	53
Uganda	19	1:2,054,699	65,771
British Virgin Islands	18	1:1,755	240
Serbia	18	1:396,942	17,613
Malawi	17	1:1,007,006	19,504
Bangladesh	15	1:10,623,785	13,506
Sri Lanka	15	1:1,387,237	9,154
Aruba	14	1:7,391	1,045
DR Congo	14	1:5,277,112	182,866
Sudan	13	1:2,885,400	5,783
Slovakia	11	1:485,132	57,527
Algeria	10	1:3,863,155	47,113
Mauritius	10	1:129,342	7,997
Taiwan	10	1:2,344,475	14,894
Angola	9	1:2,998,802	4,903
Anguilla	9	1:1,493	138
Chad	9	1:1,510,244	5,402
Marshall Islands	9	1:5,758	971
Puerto Rico	9	1:394,460	3,042
Samoa	9	1:21,534	479
Azerbaijan	8	1:1,206,140	16,795
Benin	8	1:1,291,950	54,095
El Salvador	8	1:792,986	3,584
Gambia	8	1:240,431	533
Mozambique	8	1:3,407,696	4,228
Norfolk Island	8	1:287	49
Saint Martin	8	1:4,394	114
Slovenia	8	1:310,959	16,987
Croatia	7	1:604,086	40,820
Falkland Islands	7	1:447	88
Lebanon	7	1:805,298	15,541
Moldova	7	1:508,767	32,975
Nepal	7	1:4,068,708	11,207
Cambodia	6	1:2,581,191	8,069
Gabon	6	1:314,866	3,603
Tunisia	6	1:101,771	14,710
Brunei	5	1:83,746	1,811
Myanmar	5	1:10,387,597	1,301
Bolivia	4	1:2,654,108	7,945
Cameroon	4	1:5,192,267	135,173
Curaçao	4	1:39,312	638
Djibouti	4	1:228,733	966
Dominica	4	1:18,973	529
Lithuania	4	1:758,647	25,175
Macau	4	1:150,408	604
Togo	4	1:1,811,942	8,122
Albania	3	1:971,352	22,477
Armenia	3	1:976,727	13,552
Georgia	3	1:1,248,515	28,066
Guinea	3	1:3,944,606	2,522
Latvia	3	1:683,349	34,074
Libya	3	1:2,081,325	6,108
North Macedonia	3	1:700,491	23,754
Mali	3	1:5,656,345	4,022
Tajikistan	3	1:2,795,564	12,819
Turkmenistan	3	1:1,829,704	11,403
Burkina Faso	2	1:9,176,050	23,741
Ethiopia	2	1:48,773,131	29,601
Kyrgyzstan	2	1:2,986,327	84,533
Laos	2	1:3,294,162	1,900
Rwanda	2	1:5,682,489	5,910
Somalia	2	1:6,726,030	9,210
Andorra	1	1:83,838	2,381
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1	1:3,536,402	19,532
Bulgaria	1	1:6,978,905	86,260
Burundi	1	1:9,804,852	2,349
Cook Islands	1	1:18,179	1,485
East Timor	1	1:1,215,928	507
Equatorial Guinea	1	1:1,135,674	984
Faroe Islands	1	1:48,998	2,049
Guinea-Bissau	1	1:1,728,021	323
Jordan	1	1:8,842,437	26,010
Liechtenstein	1	1:38,378	1,726
Maldives	1	1:404,172	7,269
Montenegro	1	1:639,565	9,092
Northern Cyprus	1	1:319,011	10,202
Paraguay	1	1:7,236,746	16,511
Romania	1	1:20,077,870	89,414
San Marino	1	1:33,214	932
São Tomé and Príncipe	1	1:177,423	3,686
Seychelles	1	1:92,393	1,532
Syria	1	1:19,301,022	22,457
Tonga	1	1:107,313	791
Wallis and Futuna	1	1:13,610	185
Yemen	1	1:26,425,294	55,147

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Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Ireland	6,187	1:716	112

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
England	169,387	1:144	2
Scotland	18,948	1:198	23
Wales	3,112	1:504	46
Isle of Man	150	1:362	74
Guernsey	108	1:302	44
Jersey	85	1:610	92

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	169,729	1:296	9

The alternate forms: Tàylor (1) are calculated separately.

Taylor (112,755) may also be a first name.

Taylor Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from an occupation. -From the Olde French, tailleur, a cutter of cloth. It is now understood that tailor shall be the trade-name, and Taylor and Tayler the surname. The early rolls are full of instances, and as a result Taylor is the fourth commonest patronymic in England, giving precedence only to Smith, Jones, and Williams. The Hundred Rolls (1273) have the following variations: Taillar, Taillour, Taillur, Tailur, Taliur, Taliur, Tallyur, Talur, Talyur, Tayler, Tayllour, Tayllur, Taylour, and Taylur.

Henry le Taliur, Norfolk, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Cecil le Tayllour, Cambridgeshire ibid.

Roger le Taylur, Lincolnshire, ibid.

Richard le Taylor, Northamptonshire, ibid.

1593. Baptised — Abel, s. John Tailor: St. Peter, Cornhill.

1700. Witnesses to marriage, Elizabeth Tayfar, Richard Tayler: St. George, Hanover Square.

1802. Married — Robert Julian and Mary Taylar: ibid.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

From the occupation of 'tailor,' a cutter-out of cloth, ME. taillour AF. taillour, OF. tailleur, 'the cutter, from OF. tailler, 'to cut.' in Latin documents rendered cissor. A very common name in early Scots records. Alexander le Tayllur was valet of Alexander m in 1276 (Bain, II, 76). John le Taillur held the mill of Selkirk as firmar, 1292 (Rot. Scot., I, p. 80), and Brice le Taillur was one of the Scottish prisoners taken at the capture of Dunbar Castle, 1296 (Bain, II, 742). Six persons of this name in the counties of Roxburgh, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Lanark, and Angus rendered homage, 1296 (Bain, II). John Cissor was tenant of Balgirdane in the barony of Buittle, Adam Cissor in barony of Newlands, and Andrew Cissor in the vill of Preston, 1376 (RHM, I, p. lx, lxi II, p. 16). Johannes Cissor in the parish of Fyvy was excommunicated, 1384 (REA., I, p. 165). William Scissor held a tenement in Edinburgh, 1392 (Egidii, p. 27), and Walter Cissor had grant of half the land of Glorat from David II (RMS, I, App. II, 1137, 1183). Alexander Scissorus, 'armigerus meus, 1344 (REA, I, p. 75). Donald Scissor and Bricius Scissor were witnesses in Inverness, 1462 (Invernessiana, p. 141), and Arthur Scissor in Perth, 1463, is mentioned in same year as Arthur Tailzoure (Milne, p. 52, 53). A grave slab in Dundee records "hic iacet Joannes filivs Philippi Cissoris," with a pair of scissors and a bodkin (Jervise, Memorials, p. 29). The Toillear dubh na tuaighe (Black tailor of the battle-axe) is a semi-legendary figure in Cameron traditions. Tailer 1649, Tailleur 1296, Taillor 1408, Tailliovr 1608, Tailliour 1588, Taillur 1296, Taillyer and Taillyeor 1655, Taillzier 1660, Tailyeour 1593, Tailzieor and Tailhieour 1662, Talyeor 1694, Talyhour 1453, Talyowr 1430, Talzeor 1655. Talzeour 1493, Talzior 1494, Talzour 1540, Talzoure 1467, Tayliour 1661, Tayllur 1296, Taylyhour 1430, Taylyour 1419, Taylowre 1688, Taylzowr 1525, Telvour 1534, Thailzor 1472, Thalzeour 1484, Tyllour 1720. In many instances an Anglicizing of Macintaylor, which see.

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

The name Taylor is wholly English in origin: this is not one of those cases where a Gaelic family has adopted, by translation or phonetic attraction, an English surname as a synonym of their own.

Nevertheless, though there can be no doubt that the majority of our Taylors are immigrants of comparatively recent date, the name has long been very numerous in Ireland: it was in Dublin and the southeastern counties as far back as the thirteenth century and the existence of the place-name Ballytaylor, near Ballymoney, shows that it was well established in Co. Antrim by the seventeenth century, which is confirmed by the hearth money rolls where it also appears twice as MacTaylor. A perusal of the record of the Prerogative Wills, which begins in 1536, shows that Taylors settled in many places outside Ulster. The most notable of these settlers was Thomas Taylor who came to Ireland with Sir William Petty in 1653 and became a Commissioner of the Court of Claims: much valuable manuscript material relating to the seventeenth century land settlements thus remained in the family at Bective Castle, Co.

Meath, The present title of Marquess of Headfort dates from 1800, that of Earl of Bective from 1766.

The earliest of the wills refered to above is 1583, Co. Meath; from 1600 to 1650 they relate to residents in Cos. Cork and Waterford; thereafter many of the testators are of Dublin. Modern birth registrations find them in all the provinces, the majority being in Ulster. An approximate present day estimate puts the number of Taylors in or near Belfast as 5,000, in Dublin as 2,000; in the rest of the Republic barely 500.

Apart from Francis Tailor (d. 1621), the Dublin alderman who was one of the Catholic martyrs for the faith-and perhaps I should mention the four Co. Dublin Taylors who were outlawed for their participation in the Rising of 1641 and two in the Jacobite outlawries-no one of the name has distinguished himself in the Irish national struggle; though Walter Shawe-Taylor (1832-1912) of Castletaylor, Co. Galway was notable in the closing stages of the Land War as one of the few really enlightened landlords of the time. John Sydney Taylor (1795-1841),chiefly famous for his authorship of the poem “The Burial of Sir John Moore”, was born in Ireland, as were several other writers and soldiers named Taylor. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), Bishop of Down, was one of the most distinguished of Irish Protestant churchmen. Probably the best known of the name born in Ireland was George Taylor (1716-1781), one of the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence.

— Supplement to Irish Families (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

(Anglo-French-Latin) Tailor [Middle English toylo(u)r, tayler, etc., Old French tailleor (French tailleur), prop. cutter; French tailler, to cut; Latin talea, a cutting] This name was Latinized Parmentarius.

Some foolish knave (I thinke) at first began The slander that three Taylers are one man; When many a Taylers boy I know hath beene Hath made tall men much fearefull fo be seene.—John Taylor, Workes (1630), iii. 73.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

This English name (which is not used as a synonym of any Gaelic name) is well known in Ireland since the fourteenth century and is now very numerous both in Ulster and in Dublin. Bibl; SIF 144

— A Guide to Irish Names (1964) by Edward MacLysaght

(English) One who made outer garments, a tailor.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

The well-known trade-sartor. The commonness of the occupation has led to the frequency of the surname, which, according to the XVI. Report of the Regist. Gen., 1856, stands fourth in the list of the most common family names in England and Wales, giving precedence only to Smith, Jones, and Williams. Allowing for the great preponderance of the Joneses and Williamses in Wales, where surnames are so few, Taylor may fairly challenge the right of standing next to Smith for numerosity in England, the state of the poll for births, deaths, and marriages, within a given short period, being —

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

A name of trade. We find this name modified to Tayleure, the orthography having been changed by the bearers to hide what they thought the lowness of its origin. So Smith is changed to Smyth, Turner to Turnour, etc.—as Camden says, "Mollified ridiculously lest their bearers should seem villified by them."

A Mr. Taylor, who, from this false pride, had changed his name to Tayleure, once haughtily demanding of a farmer the name of his dog, the man replied, "Why, sir, his proper name is Jowler, but since he's a consequential kind of puppy, we calls him Jouleure!"

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

From the French, Tailleau, Taillir; personal name Silvester Taillor in Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus, King John

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Taylor. —Distributed all over England, but comparatively scarce in all the south coast counties, excluding Kent. In the English counties, near and on the Scottish border, it is also relatively infrequent, yet it extends in fair numbers across the border, and is found over most of Scotland. In Wales it is rare or absent. Its principal homes in England are to be found in the great industrial counties of Lancashire, Derbyshire, Notts, and Warwickshire, and in the West Riding. It is also numerous in Lincolnshire. Six centuries ago this surname occurred in various forms, as Taylir, Taylur, Tayllour, etc. (Hundred Rolls).

— Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

The surname Taylor is an occupational name from the trade we today spell as tailor. The name derives from the Middle English word ‘tayler’ or ‘tailor’. Through the centuries the convention has gradually been established that the surname is spelt with a ‘y’ and the name for the trade is spelt with an ‘i’-though this is not invariably the case. The Middle English word comes originally from the Old French word ‘tailleur’, meaning ‘cutter’. This Old French source has given rise to several types of ‘cutter’. The best-known one has given us the surname Talboys, which has nothing to do with youth or height. This comes from the Old French ‘taillebois’, which means ‘cutter of wood’.

The surname Taylor is thus of Norman origin and came to England with William the Conqueror. Incidentally, it also gave the lie to the exclusiveness of Norman names. Taylor does not sound as Norman as, say, the more numerically exclusive de la Tour, but it is just as old and just as French.

There are several well-known variations on the most usual spelling-Taylor. They range through Tailer, Tayler or Taylour to Taylorson and Taylerson.

References to the surname Taylor start appearing in the records from the twelfth century on. One of the earliest of these is in the Pipe Rolls for Somerset. In the records for the year 1182 one William le.Taillur appears. Here the Norman origin and the occupational derivation are well illustrated.

Donald P. Taylor of Sage, California, circumnavigated the globe in the smallest aircraft so far. He built the plane in his garage, all 20 ft 11 in (6.38 m) of it. The single 180 hp Thorp T-18 engine completed the journey in 37 stages, taking a total of 176 flying hours.

Scottish dramatist Tom Taylor adapted over 100 works for the stage. One of them, Our American Cousin, was the play Abraham Lincoln was watching when he was assassinated.

In 1948 Sir William Francis Kyffin Taylor became, at 93, the oldest person ever raised to the peerage.

Thespian Joseph Taylor was an Englishman mentioned in Shakespeare’s First Folio as one of the 26 actors who took principal parts in all those plays. Legend has it that the Bard himself coached Taylor in the role of Hamlet.

The Taylor Standard Series is the method used to discover which characteristics of a ship’s hull govern its water resistance. Its inventor, David Watson Taylor, became a rear admiral in the US Navy and designed the first plane to fly the Atlantic (1919).

Coventry-born Edward Taylor (d. 1729) is considered to be colonial America’s finest poet but, at his request, the best of his verse was not published until over 200 years after his death.

British mathematician Brook Taylor (1685—1731) is noted for his great contributions to the development of calculus-he postulated ‘Taylor’s Theorem’.

John Henry Taylor (1871—1963) was one of ‘the great triumvirate’ (with Harry Vardon and James Braid) which won the British Open (golf) Championship 16 times between 1894 and 1914 (Taylor won five times). Later he was a founder and the first chairman of the British Professional Golfers’ Association.

A.J.P. Taylor (b. 1906), prolific English historian, wrote the celebrated study Origins of the Second World War which is considered the definitive work on the subject.

There are no Taylor-related places or major geographic features in the United Kingdom. Canada has a town called Taylor. The United States has 10 such towns as well as 5 Taylorsvilles, a Taylors, a Taylor Bridge and a Taylor Springs. South Africa boasts a town called Tayler’s Pan while New Zealand has one delightfully named Taylor’s Mistake. Virtually all of the fore­going, except the UK, have other geographic features named Taylor.

With about 371,000 namesakes Taylor is the 5th most popular surname in England and Wales. There are over 25,000 Taylors in Scotland where it is 14th in popularity. Taylor is notably popular in and around Manchester where an estimated one in about 115 families bears the name. In descending numerical order Birmingham, Bradford and Leeds are other Taylor strongholds. Around the world Taylors are most common in Wellington (one in 249 families), Auckland (one in 270) and Sydney (one in 305). The United States has more Taylors than the entire populations of Liverpool and Portsmouth combined-an estimated total of just under 731,000 makes this their 12th most popular surname.

— Peter Verstappen

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Taylor is a German surname, meaning 'someone who worked as a tailor'. It spread around the United Kingdom during the Norman conquest and soon became a common last name in many parts of the world.

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Taylor Demographics

Taylor Religious Adherencein Russia

Sample size: 53 (2016)

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Taylor Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Taylor Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Taylor (Arabic: يلور, Marathi: टायलर, Russian: Тайлор) has its highest incidence in The United States. It may be found as: Tàylor. Click here to see other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Taylor? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 345th most frequently used surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 4,784 people. Taylor is mostly found in The Americas, where 66 percent of Taylor reside; 64 percent reside in North America and 63 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 9,120th most frequently occurring first name globally. It is borne by 112,755 people.

Taylor is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 896,060 people, or 1 in 405. In The United States Taylor is mostly found in: Texas, where 10 percent live, California, where 8 percent live and Florida, where 5 percent live. Other than The United States it exists in 206 countries. It also occurs in England, where 19 percent live and Australia, where 6 percent live.

Taylor Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Taylor has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Taylor last name expanded 528 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 173 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 131 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 417 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 38 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Taylor Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Taylor last name is primarily Anglican (41%) in Ireland, Orthodox (74%) in Russia, Evangelical (60%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (83%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those bearing the Taylor surname are 11% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 57.77% registered with the party.

The amount Taylor earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 51.49% more than the national average, earning €45,491 per year; in Norway they earn 28.58% more than the national average, earning 445,001 kr per year; in Peru they earn 258.01% more than the national average, earning S/. 69,401 per year; in South Africa they earn 43.08% more than the national average, earning R 340,008 per year; in Colombia they earn 4.97% less than the national average, earning $21,573,900 COP per year; in United States they earn 6.46% less than the national average, earning $40,360 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.82% more than the national average, earning $51,583 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Sort resultsIncidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A

Surname	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Tàylor	94	1	/
Taylour	92	128	/
Taylore	92	43	/
Tayllor	92	22	/
Thaylor	92	18	/
Taylorr	92	18	/
Tayalor	92	18	/
Tayelor	92	17	/
Tayloor	92	12	/
Taylord	92	11	/
Tayolor	92	9	/
Taaylor	92	9	/
Dtaylor	92	9	/
Taylort	92	7	/
Taylior	92	5	/
Tayulor	92	5	/
Taiylor	92	4	/
Ttaylor	92	4	/
Tayleor	92	4	/
Tauylor	92	2	/
Taylotr	92	2	/
Tayilor	92	2	/
Tahylor	92	2	/
Htaylor	92	1	/
Taylorz	92	1	/
Tayslor	92	1	/
Taytlor	92	1	/
Tayloir	92	0	/
Tylor	91	954	/
Talor	91	550	/
D'Taylor	86	7	/
Taylorrd	86	2	/
Tayllorr	86	1	/
Tailor	83	17,724	/
Teylor	83	1,060	/
Talyor	83	306	/
Thalor	83	170	/
Talour	83	162	/
Taylar	83	161	/
Tatlor	83	58	/
Tallor	83	57	/
Talore	83	54	/
Taulor	83	46	/
Toylor	83	24	/
Taelor	83	24	/
Tahlor	83	24	/
Talior	83	13	/
Thylor	83	4	/
Taalor	83	3	/
Tytlor	83	2	/
Taylur	83	2	/
Taloir	83	2	/
Tajlor	83	1	/
Tealor	83	1	/
Taslor	83	1	/
Talohr	83	1	/
Tuylor	83	0	/
Taylorová	80	22	/
Taylorova	80	1	/
Tayleur	77	39	/
Talourd	77	29	/
Thalore	77	26	/
Thalour	77	25	/
Taylaur	77	23	/
Tallour	77	19	/
Taelour	77	18	/
Teyllor	77	11	/
Taillor	77	10	/
Talloir	77	10	/
Tailore	77	8	/
Taailor	77	5	/
Tayalar	77	3	/
Taylure	77	3	/
Tailour	77	3	/
Thailor	77	2	/
Thallor	77	2	/
Tailord	77	2	/
Tayalur	77	1	/
Taylare	77	1	/
Thaluor	77	1	/
Tatloor	77	1	/
Taijlor	77	1	/
Taloire	77	1	/
Talourt	77	1	/
Taylard	77	1	/
Talhoor	77	1	/
Tattlor	77	0	/
Talar	73	19,573	/
Talur	73	528	/
Telor	73	348	/
Tylar	73	77	/
Talár	73	24	/
Tilor	73	20	/
Tallourd	71	72	/
Tayleure	71	34	/
Theyloor	71	3	/
Tailloir	71	1	/
Taylhard	71	1	/
Talloure	71	0	/
Tallur	67	3,512	/
Telore	67	2,596	/
Talhar	67	1,659	/
Thelor	67	727	/
Tallar	67	602	/
Tailar	67	546	/
Talare	67	437	/
Taliar	67	170	/
Talard	67	160	/
Thalar	67	100	/
Talgar	67	96	/
Teilor	67	73	/
Tilore	67	55	/
Toylar	67	51	/
Thalur	67	44	/
Talyar	67	43	/
Talaur	67	31	/
Tallár	67	30	/
Tatlar	67	26	/
Teylar	67	25	/
Toulor	67	24	/
Telyor	67	24	/
Talure	67	18	/
Thylur	67	13	/
Tilgor	67	12	/
Taliur	67	12	/
Taslar	67	10	/
Thilor	67	9	/
Tatlur	67	7	/
Talarr	67	7	/
Talahr	67	7	/
Telord	67	6	/
Talatr	67	6	/
Teelor	67	5	/
Tejlor	67	5	/
Talart	67	5	/
Taylhardt	67	4	/
Telior	67	4	/
Talaar	67	3	/
Toilor	67	3	/
Telhor	67	2	/
Tailur	67	2	/
Taelar	67	2	/
Talarz	67	2	/
Telour	67	2	/
Taular	67	2	/
Tyelur	67	1	/
Teloor	67	1	/
Tielor	67	1	/
Talhur	67	1	/
Tilort	67	1	/
Tahlar	67	1	/
Taslár	67	1	/
Thélor	67	1	/
Tilior	67	1	/
Taalar	67	1	/
Talarh	67	1	/

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Taylor Name Transliterations

Transliteration	ICU Latin	Percentage of Incidence
Taylor in the Marathi language
टायलर	tayalara	-
Taylor in the Russian language
Тайлор	tajlor	-
Taylor in the Arabic language
يلور	ylwr	-
ليلور	lylwr	-
تيلر	tylr	-
تيلور	tylwr	-
تايلور	taylwr	-

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