Sawyer
For 2025 the count puts Sawyer at #122 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. Its record runs from 1913 through a 2015 peak, 65,838 children in all.


Sawyer’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Sawyer, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Sawyer since 1913
Sawyer peaked in 2015 at #94; #122 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Sawyer is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Sawyer runs strongest in Vermont at 0.99% in 2025, then Wyoming and Maine.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Sawyer
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Scottie
#126 in 2025
Stetson
#136 in 2025
Sloane
#141 in 2025
Sienna
#94 in 2025
Sage
#160 in 2025
Skylar
#167 in 2025
Sutton
#181 in 2025
Stevie
#203 in 2025
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About Sawyer
How popular is the name Sawyer?
For 2025 the count puts Sawyer at #122 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1913.
What does Sawyer mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Sawyer keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
Which names sit near Sawyer?
Scottie, Stetson and Sloane sit nearest to Sawyer on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Sawyer’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Sawyer earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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