An English surname meaning who sews professionally, a tailor. From Latin the word was ‘taliare‘ which meant to cut. In the Old French form of the word it was ‘tailleur,’ which stood for a tailor.

When immigrants with the following variations arrived in the United States, they then changed the surname to the English form, Taylor. From the Netherlands it was , in Germany it was (German), From Poland the spelling was Krawiec, in Hungary it was Szabó and the form in Russia is Portnoy.

Several other spellings for Taylor include Tailor, Tyler, Tayler, Taylour, Tayloe, Tailour and Tailleur.

The Taylor name is common in the United States and the United Kingdom. Within the United States most Taylors are in the eastern states, especially in Ohio, New York, and down in the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. The Taylor surname is also in Texas and California in large numbers.

Famous: Zachary Taylor (U. S. President), James Taylor (singer and songwriter), David Taylor (professional wrestler), Jack Taylor (professional baseball player), Jermain Taylor (middleweight boxing champion), Frederick Taylor (British historian), Cecil Taylor ( U. S. pianist and poet), Elizabeth Taylor (actress) and Frederick S. Taylor (founder of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity).