How common is the surname Sayer?

3,395 people in the United States had the surname Sayer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. It ranked 9,573rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sayer?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sayer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Who is the most famous person named Sayer?

Malcolm Sayer, British automobile and aerospace engineer.

Where is the surname Sayer most common?

Wikidata records people named Sayer in the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Sayer getting more or less common?

More common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,395 in 2010, up 28%.

The surname Sayer

An English occupational surname, carried by 3,395 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sayer is more common than 94.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

Of multiple origins, including an occupational surname for a sawyer, or an assayer of metals, or a seller of serge cloth ( Middle English say), or a sewer.

Sayer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,395 people named Sayer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. That is up 28% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,649.

#9,573

rank among US surnames

3,395

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+28.2%

change since 2000 (was #11,012)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,567	Hendon	3,398	90,861
#9,568	Sill	3,397	90,888
#9,570	Revis	3,396	90,914
#9,573	Delacerda	3,395	90,941
#9,578	Enoch	3,394	90,968
#9,581	Scheid	3,393	90,995

Who is named Sayer

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

91% of people named Sayer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.6%
Two or more races 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sayers

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Malcolm Sayer
British automobile and aerospace engineer, 1916–1970

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Sare
Sear

Surnames that sound like Sayer

Sayer has the Soundex code S600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S600.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sayer come from?: Of multiple origins, including an occupational surname for a sawyer, or an assayer of metals, or a seller of serge cloth ( Middle English say), or a sewer.
How common is the surname Sayer?: 3,395 people in the United States had the surname Sayer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,941 Americans. It ranked 9,573rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sayer?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Sayer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Sayer?: Malcolm Sayer, British automobile and aerospace engineer.
Where is the surname Sayer most common?: Wikidata records people named Sayer in the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Sayer?: Sayer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Sayer getting more or less common?: More common. 2,649 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,395 in 2010, up 28%.
What are other spellings of Sayer?: Sare and Sear.