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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
girls
1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 12,933 of them was named Sawyer, which outranked 92.5% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,488Karyme148
- #1,488Randi148
- #1,488Tammy148
- #1,495Sawyer147
- #1,495Ariyana147
- #1,495Ayleen147
- #1,495Dayna147
- #1,505Annalisa146
- #1,505Belle146
- #1,505Brea146
Tied with 9 names at #1,495; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 1,480 of them was named Sawyer, which outranked 98.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.