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Sawyer

boys’ name · 78%girls’ name · 22%Steady · modern nameCompare

Sawyer is ranked 132nd among boys in 2024 (2,756 births). Its best rank was 94th, in 2015.

Rank in 2024
#132down 5 from 2023
Births in 2024
2,7560.16% of boys
Peak year
20154,271 births
Best rank
#94in 2015
Since 1913
80,150people given the name
Babies named Sawyer, by year of birthboysgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

62,873 boys have been named Sawyer in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 4,271 births — 0.22% of all boys recorded that year.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 110 → 132).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 34 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.

Sawyer is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are girls (17,277), most of them born around 2018.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Sawyer
1910s7
1970s5
1980s275
1990s3,453
2000s10,153
2010s34,028
2020s14,952

In 2015, its biggest year

Sawyer was the 94th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Sawyer

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.