# Sawyer (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sawyer/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “one who saws” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Skate |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 84,176 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65,838 / 18,338 (22% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 365, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* 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.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 386 | 719 |
| 2012 | 542 | 550 |
| 2013 | 688 | 447 |
| 2014 | 965 | 344 |
| 2015 | 1,221 | 261 |
| 2016 | 1,283 | 245 |
| 2017 | 1,391 | 225 |
| 2018 | 1,428 | 219 |
| 2019 | 1,292 | 248 |
| 2020 | 1,259 | 239 |
| 2021 | 1,377 | 216 |
| 2022 | 1,260 | 242 |
| 2023 | 1,124 | 280 |
| 2024 | 1,065 | 297 |
| 2025 | 1,056 | 291 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,179 | 172 |
| 2012 | 2,741 | 147 |
| 2013 | 3,166 | 120 |
| 2014 | 3,597 | 110 |
| 2015 | 4,272 | 94 |
| 2016 | 4,248 | 97 |
| 2017 | 4,171 | 95 |
| 2018 | 3,878 | 100 |
| 2019 | 3,559 | 106 |
| 2020 | 3,189 | 116 |
| 2021 | 3,259 | 114 |
| 2022 | 2,914 | 131 |
| 2023 | 2,843 | 127 |
| 2024 | 2,768 | 131 |
| 2025 | 2,941 | 122 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,519 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 1,788 |
| 2012 | 11 | 1,962 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,404 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 17 | 1,442 |
| 2016 | 20 | 1,319 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,339 |
| 2018 | 19 | 1,324 |
| 2019 | 22 | 1,189 |
| 2020 | 13 | 1,723 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,688 |
| 2022 | 13 | 1,781 |
| 2023 | 23 | 1,207 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 16 | 1,613 |

## People named Sawyer

- Sawyer Sweeten, American child actor (1995-2015)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.