Origin and popularity of the name TAYLOR

Origin

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 Schneider and Hungarian Szabo. It is also very common among African Americans.2: In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms such as Therrien and Terrian.

Galler : 1: German: patronymic from a personal name (from Latin Gallus) which was widespread in Europe in the Middle Ages (see Gall 3).2: German: nickname for someone in the service of the monastery of St. Gallen (see Gall 3) or a habitational name for someone from the city in Switzerland so named.3: English: nickname from Old French galler galure ‘coxcomb fop’ or ‘affable man’ a medieval equivalent of Gallier.4: English (of French Huguenot origin): altered form of Gallier a cognate of 3 above.5: Hungarian (Gallér): from gallér ‘collar’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a taylor in particular a maker of military garments.6: Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Galle ‘bile gall’ with the agent suffix -er. This surname seems to have been one of the group of names selected at random from vocabulary words by government officials.

Tallett : 1: probably in most cases from Middle English tail(l)ard ‘creature with a tail’ i.e. ‘monkey’ a common term of abuse. It is the English equivalent of Norman French Marmion. The change from Tayllard to Tallard and Tallet(t) or Tallot(t) is not well recorded though possibly instanced in Thomas Tallard 1661 Charles Tallet 1784 in IGI (Saint Botolph without Aldgate London). In some cases Tayllard and Tallard may have been absorbed into Taylor. Compare James Taylor 1707 in IGI (Overbury Worcs) with the 1744 bearer below.perhaps for a swordsman from Old French taillard a sword for cutting and thrusting especially in fencing. 2: possibly from an unrecorded Old French personal name *Talot *Talet a diminutive form of Continental Germanic *Talo (related to *dal- ‘bright proud’). Compare Tallon. However no evidence has been found that the name given below has survived into modern times.

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