Sawyer
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
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
By decade
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.
- Breckenpeak 2017
- Rugerpeak 2016
- Paxtonpeak 2016
- Karsonpeak 2018
- Graysenpeak 2016
- Kasenpeak 2019
- Finniganpeak 2016
- Nikolaipeak 2016
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.