Given name & surname
Taggart
“son of a priest”
Taggart is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “son of a priest.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “son of a priest.”
How it developed
From Scottish Gaelic Mac an t-Sagairt (“son of the priest”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Taggart through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 672
- 672 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,830 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −54%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,830 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 35 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 588 as a first name in 2020; 9,085 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Taggart’s family of names
Taggart has a related form in Taggert. Taggart has a related form in Taggirt. Taggart has a related form in Taggort.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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