girls:
16.2k births since 1986
#1177 (79th percentile)
boys:
60.1k births since 1913
#440 (90th percentile)
overall:
76.3k births since 1913
#825 (89th percentile)
The name Sawyer is the #825 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 76,301 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 89.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #440 (90.4% percentile) for all time with 60,092 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #1,177 (79.4% percentile) for all time with 16,209 births since 1986.
Sawyer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Sawyer is available in 43 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (43 years for boys and 38 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Sawyer has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 71.7% of babies named Sawyer were boys.
For boys, Sawyer reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 89.8% percentile (ranked #93) with 2,089 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 2,108 births per million (ranked 89.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sawyer ranks #124 for boys (86.5% percentile) with 1,547 births per million, which is 73.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sawyer reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 78.0% percentile (ranked #207) with 769 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 769 births per million (ranked 78.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sawyer ranks #266 for girls (72.0% percentile) with 640 births per million, which is 83.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sawyer".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Sawyer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.6% confident that Sawyer is pronounced as SAW-yer, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SOY-er, at 19.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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