Entry № 9308 · English origin

Sawyer Sawyer — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAW-yer /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"One who saws wood (Diane Sawyer, ABC News)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "one who saws wood (diane sawyer, abc news)".

Sawyer is from the Old English saghyere (one who saws wood) — historically a male occupational surname now widely used as a feminine given name.

One who saws wood.

The name in its native script.

Sawyer
Transliteration
Sawyer
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɔː.jər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sawyer stands.

Sawyer does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sawyers before her.

Real people
Diane Sawyer
American ABC News anchor.
born 1945
In fiction
Tom Sawyer
Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
1876
James Sawyer Ford
ABC's Lost.
2004

Names connected to Sawyer.

The number behind Sawyer.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sawyer reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.