Baby name
FADING
🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Tayler
/TAY · ler/
Meaning
“To cut”
Gender-neutral spelling variant of Taylor, from Old French tailleur meaning 'to cut'; the -er ending marks it as a 1990s-2000s American spelling individualization.
Nicknames
tay
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Variant spelling that dates it to the individualized-spelling era; ages as a quirk of its time.
The cultural moment.
Occasional use in the US in the 1990s-2000s; uncommon today.