Sayer
#13,558 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sayer has been given to 417 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #13,558 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Sayer, 2025
1 in 663,000
Sayer over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sayer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,558
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sayer sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sayers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sayer was born before 2009 — so the typical Sayer is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 401
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (154).
Is Sayer rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −1,444
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,779
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,862
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.31×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.9%
- Peak was 2017 (28)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.6% average annual change
Spellings of Sayer
Sayer is not the most common spelling — Sawyer is, with 29.3% against Sayer's 0.18%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Sayer around the world
Where Sayer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2010–2010#4,678in 2010
- France2015–2015#5,789in 2015
- Canada2013–2014#2,374in 2014
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Sayer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Sayer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sayer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.