Taylor

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Female/Male Both Genders Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname, which originated as an occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French taillour, a derivative of taillier, Latin taleare = 'to cut' [1]

Related Names

Tayler ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Swedish
Taylor ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Taylor
Genitive: Taylors
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Taylor
Genitive: Taylorin
Partitive: Tayloria
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Taylor
Genitive: Taylors
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Taylor
Genitive: Taylors

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 17 (male) people were named Taylor (percentage of first or only given name: 0 %) [2]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
72 177 35 76 37 101
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
131
n.a.
67
n.a.
64
Denmark Denmark[5]
41
n.a.
16
n.a.
25
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
18
n.a.
9
n.a.
9
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Taylor.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no