Sawyer
About 84,176 American babies have been named Sawyer since 1913, most of them around 2015. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 122nd. About 83,000 Sawyers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sawyer boys named Sawyer
Girls and boys called Sawyer
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 18,338 girls and 65,838 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 1,056 to 2,941.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 40 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 84,176
- Estimated living today
- 83,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2015
- Best rank
- 94th
- Rank in 2025
- 122nd
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 18,338 / 65,838
How old the living Sawyers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 84,176 babies given the name since 1913, about 83,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 72,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sawyers
- Sawyer Sweeten (1995–2015)American child actor
People named Sawyer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sawyer is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sawyer is most concentrated in Utah (3.0×), Idaho (2.9×), Alaska (2.4×), Montana (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2015
The most popular boys’ names the year Sawyer peaked:
Sawyer elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Sawyer | 315 | 1,207th |
| France boys | Sawyer | 175 | 1,980th |
| France girls | Sawyer | 75 | 2,895th |
| England and Wales girls | Sawyer | 50 | 3,583rd |
| Scotland boys | Sawyer | 34 | 442nd |
| Ireland boys | Sawyer | 12 | 713th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Sawyer | 3 | 414th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.