Sawyer is of English origin and means ‘One who saws’. A saw is a tool designed to cut wood, metal or stone. The oldest known saws date back to around 3000 BC.
Sawyer is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
The name Sawyer is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #126 in the SmartGenius ranking.
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When you hear the name Sawyer, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Sawyer? Are you also called Sawyer? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
are named Sawyer. They are located in the US states of Washington, Minnesota, and Kentucky.
in Fillmore County, Nebraska is named Sawyer. It was laid out in 1887 and inhabited until the 1920s. Simeon Sawyer, a pioneer settler, was its namesake.
is a 7-mile-long stream in the state of New York. It flows into the Hudson River.
you can find the Sawyer River, which is 9.1 miles long. It is located in the White Mountains and is a tributary of the Saco River.
in the US are called Sawyer. You can find them in Kansas, North Dakota, and Oklahoma, for example.
is a county in the state of Wisconsin. It is named for Philetus Sawyer, who represented Wisconsin in the House of Representatives around 1870.
Sawyer is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Sawyer cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #103 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Sawyer, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their newborn child. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Sawyer seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sawyer was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
4,147 babies were named Sawyer in 2022 - that's 1 in 79,721 newborns. With this number, the first name Sawyer ranked 140 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Sawyer is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Sawyer and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sawyer, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Windmill
Yoyo
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sawyer
Sawyer
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
W
Y
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
A
W
Y
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sawyer sounds like this:
