First name origins & meanings:
- English: Tailor
- Middle English: Tailor
First name variations: Tailor, Tay, Tie, Tailor, Tay, Tie
Last name origin & meaning:
English and Scottish: occupational name for a tailor, from Old
French tailleur (Late Latin taliator, from
taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain
and Ireland, and its numbers have been swelled by its adoption as an
Americanized form of the numerous equivalent European names, most of
which are also very common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example
Schneider, Szabó, and Portnov.
Famous people with this first name:
Taylor Hanson
Famous people with this last name:
Corey Taylor,
James Taylor
Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Garth Brooks,
David Hassellhoff,
Emilio Estevez
This name appears in the following lists:
Child Stars,
First Ladies,
Opera Singers,
Presidents' Kids,
Silver Screen,
U.S. Presidents