Where the Taylor name comes from

Taylor is the tailor, and the word underneath it is the Old French tailleur, a cutter. The surname developed in England after the Norman invasion, and the first evidence of it is in Somerset in 1182. It is the fourth most common surname in the United Kingdom, fifth in England, eleventh in Scotland and twenty-second in Wales, though it is thin on the ground in Ireland outside the north. Where an English-speaking family had been Schneider a generation earlier, Taylor is usually what the German name became.