Popularity of the last name by country
India
- Tamil Nadu (286)
- West Bengal (261)
- Maharashtra (173)
- Uttar Pradesh (72)
- Delhi (44)
- Andhra Pradesh (27)
- Karnataka (18)
- Kerala (8)
- Gujarat (5)
- Pondicherry (5)
- Punjab (3)
- Jammu & Kashmir (2)
All countries
- United Kingdom (2,029,929)
- United States (807,461)
- Australia (74,339)
- Ireland (54,265)
- New Zealand (50,678)
- Canada (29,513)
- France (24,173)
- Unknown country (14,755)
- Germany (3,244)
- Netherlands (3,147)
- Italy (3,102)
- Switzerland (2,716)
- Belgium (2,673)
- Mexico (1,780)
- India (1,689)
- Colombia (1,418)
- Spain (1,041)
- China (729)
- South Africa (654)
- Jamaica (630)
- Russian Federation (536)
- Austria (510)
- Argentina (495)
- Sweden (482)
- Greece (469)
- Denmark (403)
- Peru (371)
- Egypt (359)
- Turkey (357)
- Brazil (345)
- Poland (339)
- Portugal (287)
- Indonesia (260)
- Cuba (238)
- Panama (216)
- Malta (207)
- Paraguay (201)
- Sri Lanka (197)
- Singapore (185)
- Lebanon (177)
Origine of last name
TAYLOR : 1: English Scottish and Irish: occupational name for a tailor from Anglo-Norman French Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor tailleur; Late Latin taliator from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America it has absorbed equivalents from other languages many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews for example German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Schneider">Schneider</a> and Hungarian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Szabo">Szabo</a>. It is also very common among African Americans.2: In some cases also an Americanized form of French <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Terrien">Terrien</a> ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms such as <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Therrien">Therrien</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Terrian">Terrian</a>.
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