Is Taylor a male or female name?
Taylor is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 74% and male usage in England and Wales at 63%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 72%
- Sample size
- 504,374
- Confidence
- high
Taylor by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 74% | 442,358 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 75% | 31,110 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | male | 63% | 26,953 | ons |
| France FR | male | 71% | 1,920 | insee |
| Ireland IE | female | 76% | 1,516 | cso |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 244 | ine |
| Switzerland CH | male | 56% | 143 | bfs |
| Poland PL | male | 65% | 68 | pesel |
| Austria AT | male | 92% | 62 | statat |
Attested in 14 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · PL · SE · US
Taylor over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Taylor in the 1880s were girls, against 75% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 27.3% of the babies named Taylor in the 1990s were girls, against 22.8% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 0% | 276 | — | |
| 1890s | 0% | 264 | — | |
| 1900s | 0% | 282 | — | |
| 1910s | 0% | 882 | — | |
| 1920s | 0% | 976 | — | |
| 1930s | 0% | 730 | — | |
| 1940s | 0% | 772 | — | |
| 1950s | 4% | 899 | — | |
| 1960s | 9% | 1,061 | — | |
| 1970s | 22% | 2,868 | — | |
| 1980s | 41% | 33,040 | — | |
| 1990s | 74% | 227,417 | 27% | 330 |
| 2000s | 85% | 118,636 | 50% | 300 |
| 2010s | 84% | 45,307 | 28% | 755 |
| 2020s | 75% | 8,948 | 23% | 460 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Taylor with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Taylor
Is Taylor a male or female name?
Taylor is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 74% and male usage in England and Wales at 63%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Taylor change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Taylor identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.