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The taylor Surname

taylor Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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taylor Family Facts

Distribution of taylor Families in the US in 1920
Number of taylor families
 3009-6015
 1004-3008		 1-1003
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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