where did the last name taylor originate from
Old French
title: Taylor (surname) text: Taylor (surname) Taylor is a surname used in the British Isles of French and Latin origin which originated as a Norman occupational surname (meaning "tailor") in France It is derived from the Old French "" ("cutter"), which is in turn derived from the Late Latin "taliator", from "taliare" ("to cut"). The first historical evidence of the surname dates to the County of Somerset, South West England in 1182. "Taylor" is the fourth-most common surname in United Kingdom, fifth-most common in England, the 11th-most common in Scotland and the 22nd-most common in Wales. It is also common in other English speaking title: Taylor (surname) text: were residents of the United States. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1: 407) in the following U.S. states: The frequency of the surname was highest (over four times the national average) in the following U.S. counties: Taylor (surname) Taylor is a surname used in the British Isles of French and Latin origin which originated as a Norman occupational surname (meaning "tailor") in France It is derived from the Old French "" ("cutter"), which is in turn derived from the Late Latin "taliator", from "taliare" ("to cut"). The first historical evidence of the surname dates to title: Taylor (surname) text: countries (especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, where it was the tenth most frequently encountered surname in the 2000 US Census), but has a low incidence in Ireland, where it is mostly concentrated in the North. It is often the anglicized form of the German surname Schneider. At the time of the United Kingdom Census of 1881, the frequency of the surname "Taylor" was highest in the following counties: As of 2014, the frequency of the surname was highest in the following countries and territories: As of 2014, 57.9% of all known bearers of the surname "Taylor" title: James Taylor text: and the aforementioned "You've Got A Friend", as well as originals such as "Fire and Rain". James Vernon Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 12, 1948, where his father, Isaac M. Taylor, worked as a resident physician. His father came from a wealthy Scottish family from the South, however, part of his ancestral roots are deep in Massachusetts Bay Colony and include Edmund Rice, one of the founders of Sudbury, Massachusetts. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard (1921–2015), studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an aspiring opera title: Richard Taylor (general) text: born at Springfield, the family's plantation near Louisville, Kentucky to Zachary Taylor, then a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army at the time, and Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Richard Lee Taylor, a Virginian who had served in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Richard Taylor, nicknamed "Dick", had five older sisters, two of whom died in childhood before Richard was born. Three lived to adulthood: Ann Mackall Taylor, Sarah Knox Taylor, and Mary Elizabeth Taylor. Much of his early life was spent on the American frontier, as his father was a career military