Gender-neutral · #122 in 2025

Sawyer

Sawyer: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#122
Born 2025
2,941
Peak year
2017

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Sawyer per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 2017. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Sawyer has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 77% of its 2017 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 27% of children named Sawyer were recorded as girls and 73% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.