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Sawyer

Rank in 2024
#132
Born in 2024
2,756
Peak year
2015 · #94
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,062 in 2024 (#297)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,756 boys were named Sawyer, about 1 in every 622.
  • It peaked in 2015 with 4,271 babies, ranked #94.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1913.
  • 62,873 boys have been named Sawyer since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Sawyer per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.6
    Gen Z
  7. 1.9
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 7 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,447 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 18,574 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 41,840 babies, 1.93 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar. As a French surname, variant of Seguin.

  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Sawyer, CC BY-SA 4.0.