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Sawyer

Sawyer: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“woodcutter”
Origin
English
Say it
SOY-er · 2 syllables
Used for
Both (22% girls, 78% boys since 1880)

Sawyer is an English occupational surname for someone who sawed wood. It later came into use as a given name.

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How popular is Sawyer?

20241,147 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Sawyer in 20243,818

2024 rank#132 boys

Peak year2017

Total US babies since 188080,150

Sawyer has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Sawyer

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Averyruler of elves · English
  • Riverriver · English
  • TatumTata's homestead · English
  • EmersonEmery's son · English
  • Haydenhay valley · English
  • Sagewise one; sage plant · English
  • Remingtonsettlement by the streambank · English
  • Scottiefrom Scotland · English

Sawyer questions

What does the name Sawyer mean?

Sawyer means "woodcutter". It comes from English. Sawyer is an English occupational surname for someone who sawed wood. It later came into use as a given name.

Is Sawyer a boy or girl name?

Sawyer is used for both: about 22% of US babies named Sawyer since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Sawyer?

3,818 US babies were named Sawyer in 2024. Its peak year was 2017.

How do you pronounce Sawyer?

Sawyer is usually pronounced SOY-er.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.