Taylan

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A few things about Taylan you might not know, from US birth records and Wikipedia. Handy for convincing a partner, or a grandparent.

⭐ Famous Taylan

Taylan Antalyalı

Turkish association football player (born 1995)

Choose Taylan and your child shares a first name with Taylan Antalyalı, a Turkish association football player. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Taylan, like who?” Taylan Antalyalı's Wikipedia article is available in 21 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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Photo: Анна Нэсси, CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons

• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 77,519 baby boys born in the US in 2025 was named Taylan, 22 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Taylan would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryTaylan first shows up in US birth records in 1991, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 34 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 2010, when it reached #2,579.
• 🍂TrendTaylan has slipped 1,403 places over the last five years and now sits at #4,539. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.
• ⚖️Boy or girlTaylan is given to both boys and girls: 73% of the 30 babies named Taylan in 2025 were boys. That makes it one of the names that truly works for either.

About the name Taylan

Taylan is a boy name of English origin. It has 6 letters and 2 syllables, starting with T and ending in “-lan”. US birth records list Taylan for boys from 1991 to 2025, in 35 of those 35 years. Its best year was 2010, when it ranked #2,579 among boy names. In 2025 it ranked #4,539, with 22 babies.

Origin:English names