The Baylor surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,336 people carried this name — #5,489 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 46,500 people counted. That is up 4% from 6,090 in 2000.

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In print

Baylor in American newspapers,
1898–1914.

Newspaper page from The Star-independent carrying the name Baylor
The Star-independent 1914-12-09
Newspaper page from The Middlesborough News carrying the name Baylor
The Middlesborough News 1898-10-22
Newspaper page from The Star-independent carrying the name Baylor
The Star-independent 1914-12-07

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,171 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Baylor in Australian newspapers,
1830s–1980s.

1,302 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Baylor. The most, 196, date from the 1910s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 1.8 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 384
Victoria 308
Queensland 198
Western Australia 180
South Australia 172
Tasmania 46
ACT (Canberra) 3
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Baylor.

Who carried it

People named Baylor,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Walker Baylor
    Walker Baylor 1762–1822
  • Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor
    Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor 1793–1873 · judge
  • John R. Baylor
    John R. Baylor 1822–1894 · politician
  • John Walker Baylor 1782–1835 · surgeon
  • George Wythe Baylor 1785–1827 · politician
  • Betsy Davis Timberlake 1789–1838

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Baylor,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States476 records

476 records of the Baylor name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 226
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 140
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 59
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 21
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 16
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 8
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • Sacramento County historic burials 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Arthur Jerome Baylor

    Born 1943; from Baltimore, Maryland. U.S. Army, medical equipment repairer; killed in action 1966 in South Vietnam. Buried at Baltimore National Cemetery, Maryland.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Vernal G. Baylor

    Born 1918 in Texas. Enlisted 1941 at Santa Fe, New Mexico; shoemaker from Grant County, New Mexico. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1984, buried at Santa Fe National Cemetery, New Mexico.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Rosine Baylor

    Arrived at New York in 1865 aboard the Bellona from London, aged 30; farmer. From Germany.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 476 records for Baylor in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia2 records

2 records of the Baylor name in Australia Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923
  1. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Peter Baylor

    Arrived in Victoria in 1868 aboard the Wennington, aged 32.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)

Showing 1 of 2 records for Baylor in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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