Family name origins & meanings
- English (of Norman origin) : occupational name for a tailor or nickname for a good swordsman, from taillant ‘cutting’, present participle of Old French tailler ‘to cut’ (Late Latin taliare, from talea ‘(plant) cutting’).
- English : variant spelling of Tallent.
- Irish : of English origin, recorded in Ireland from the 16th century; also a variant form of Tallon.