Baby name

FADING BOY · OLD FRENCH-ENGLISH
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Tayler

/TAY · ler/


“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.

tay

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.