Recorded 1913–2025 · United States
Sawyer was most popular in 2017, when 5,562 American babies were given the name — ranking #104 that year. In 2025 it ranked #141, with 3,997 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 84,176 people named Sawyer.
Sawyer first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1913, which makes it about 112 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 45 of the 113 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 84,176 American births named Sawyer between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 83,393 are estimated to be alive today.
3,997 American babies were named Sawyer in 2025, ranking #141 that year.
Sawyer is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 4,121 births a year, against 3,951 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +4% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Sawyer is a unisex name — 21.8% of the 84,176 Americans given it were girls and 78.2% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 27% girls and 73% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 83,393 Americans named Sawyer are alive today — 99% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 10 years old, and half are between 6 and 14. That is a narrow band because Sawyer is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org