Sawyer — #132 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sawyer

The Social Security Administration has registered 62,873 babies named Sawyer between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sawyer currently holds the #132 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 4,271 babies received it in a single year. Sawyer is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17,277 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sawyer performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 34,028 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sawyer shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,750 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Sawyer in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sawyer in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 62,873 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.