Sawyer
#290 for girls in 2025, 1,056 births · #122 for boys in 2025, 2,941 births
Given to boys 78.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 4,272 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 4 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 65,838since 1913
Sawyer over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #290 | 1,056 | #122 | 2,941 |
| 2024 | #297 | 1,065 | #131 | 2,768 |
| 2023 | #280 | 1,124 | #127 | 2,843 |
| 2022 | #242 | 1,260 | #131 | 2,914 |
| 2021 | #216 | 1,377 | #114 | 3,259 |
| 2020 | #239 | 1,259 | #116 | 3,189 |
| 2019 | #248 | 1,292 | #106 | 3,559 |
| 2018 | #218 | 1,428 | #100 | 3,878 |
| 2017 | #225 | 1,391 | #95 | 4,171 |
| 2016 | #245 | 1,283 | #97 | 4,248 |
| 2015 | #260 | 1,221 | #94 | 4,272 |
| 2014 | #344 | 965 | #110 | 3,597 |
| 2013 | #446 | 688 | #120 | 3,166 |
| 2012 | #549 | 542 | #147 | 2,741 |
| 2011 | #716 | 386 | #172 | 2,179 |
| 2010 | #786 | 350 | #173 | 2,220 |
| 2009 | #1,027 | 253 | #202 | 1,897 |
| 2008 | #1,374 | 175 | #225 | 1,674 |
| 2007 | #1,645 | 135 | #240 | 1,511 |
| 2006 | #1,495 | 147 | #247 | 1,389 |
| 2005 | #1,894 | 102 | #307 | 1,069 |
| 2004 | #1,835 | 103 | #439 | 592 |
| 2003 | #2,393 | 69 | #440 | 570 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | #498 | 463 |
| 2001 | #2,487 | 62 | #486 | 471 |
| 2000 | #2,034 | 81 | #460 | 517 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #480 | 463 |
| 1998 | #2,338 | 60 | #502 | 429 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #518 | 389 |
| 1996 | #2,372 | 55 | #524 | 380 |
| 1995 | #2,456 | 52 | #491 | 438 |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | #469 | 463 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | #530 | 375 |
| 1992 | #4,382 | 23 | #595 | 299 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #945 | 126 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #1,129 | 91 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #1,281 | 72 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #1,451 | 53 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #1,218 | 63 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #1,439 | 48 |
| 1985 | — | #2,598 | 19 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,141 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sawyer! It came in at #2,273, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1982, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sawyer is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Dakota#156 · 1 in 646
- Maine#156 · 1 in 822
- Wisconsin#167 · 1 in 1,026
- Montana#187 · 1 in 805
- Minnesota#211 · 1 in 1,442
Best ever in a state: #10 in Vermont, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | #156 | 7 | 1 in 822 |
| South Dakota | #156 | 6 | 1 in 646 |
| Wisconsin | #167 | 28 | 1 in 1,026 |
| Montana | #187 | 5 | 1 in 805 |
| Minnesota | #211 | 20 | 1 in 1,442 |
| Iowa | #278 | 8 | 1 in 2,032 |
| Alabama | #283 | 14 | 1 in 1,756 |
| Utah | #339 | 9 | 1 in 2,125 |
| Colorado | #348 | 11 | 1 in 2,273 |
| Oregon | #352 | 8 | 1 in 2,419 |
| Massachusetts | #365 | 9 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Washington | #367 | 13 | 1 in 2,594 |
| Arkansas | #381 | 6 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Connecticut | #383 | 5 | 1 in 3,692 |
| Kentucky | #408 | 5 | 1 in 4,643 |
| Tennessee | #412 | 10 | 1 in 3,467 |
| Michigan | #413 | 17 | 1 in 3,488 |
| Oklahoma | #438 | 6 | 1 in 3,351 |
| Ohio | #519 | 12 | 1 in 5,834 |
| North Carolina | #524 | 10 | 1 in 4,701 |
| Missouri | #537 | 6 | 1 in 5,734 |
| Louisiana | #554 | 7 | 1 in 3,839 |
| Pennsylvania | #560 | 10 | 1 in 6,599 |
| Illinois | #563 | 15 | 1 in 5,310 |
| Georgia | #566 | 11 | 1 in 4,562 |
| Florida | #581 | 16 | 1 in 5,367 |
| Texas | #596 | 26 | 1 in 6,041 |
| Indiana | #648 | 5 | 1 in 7,461 |
| California | #670 | 29 | 1 in 8,469 |
| New Jersey | #814 | 5 | 1 in 9,618 |
| New York | #1,076 | 8 | 1 in 14,362 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sawyer
- 9 spots since 2024 (#131 → #122)
- 6 spots since 2020 (#116 → #122)
- 28 spots since 2015 (#94 → #122)
- Biggest jump: 350 spots in 1992 (#945 → #595)
- Biggest drop: 33 spots in 1996 (#491 → #524)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2015 at #94 (4,272 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 4 yrs · run 2015–2018
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 444 boys born in 2017 were named Sawyer (0.23%)
- Latest: 1 in 581 boys born in 2025 (0.17%)
- Its best rank, #94 in 2015, was only 1 in 449 (0.22%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.7% of all boys named Sawyer (34,031) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 7 | #2,273 (1913) | #2,273 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 275 | #1,218 (1987) | #2,261 |
| 1990s | 3,453 | #469 (1994) | #618 |
| 2000s | 10,153 | #202 (2009) | #354 |
| 2010s | 34,031 | #94 (2015) | #121 |
| 2020s | 17,914 | #114 (2021) | #124 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sawyer in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 41,445 of them was named Sawyer, which outranked 82.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,820Tisha43
- #2,820Tykia43
- #2,820Tynisha43
- #2,874Sawyer42
- #2,874Aiyanna42
- #2,874Alandra42
- #2,874Alizabeth42
- #2,934Anthony41
- #2,934Ariela41
- #2,934Asma41
Tied with 59 names at #2,874; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 4,846 of them was named Sawyer, which outranked 95.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).