Sawyer

Where Sawyer comes from

* As an English occupational surname, from sawyer (“one who saws”). Senses loaned from various languages include Jewish/German Seger and Sager, Slovene Žagar. * As a French surname, variant of Seguin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sawyer
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,273 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1995
    Sawyer Sweeten born
    American child actor
  3. 1999
    Sawyer Fredericks born
    American singer
  4. 2015
    Peak, #94
    4,272 babies named Sawyer — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Sawyer Sweeten · American child actor, 1995–2015
  • Sawyer Fredericks · American singer, born 1999
  • Sawyer Spielberg · son of Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.