English · Unisex name
Sawyer
“woodcutter or one who saws wood”
About the name Sawyer
Sawyer is an English occupational surname meaning ‘woodcutter’, or one who saws wood, from Middle English ‘sawe’. Tom Sawyer is a famous character from Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, published in the eighteen-seventies, and he reappears in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The name came into use as a first name in the nineteenth century, and today it is given to both boys and girls, mainly in the United States.
- Meaning
- woodcutter or one who saws wood
- Origin
- English
- Gender
- Unisex
- Pronunciation
- SAW-yer(2 syl.)
Variants and spellings
No common variant spellings are widely recorded.
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Middle names for Sawyer
- Sawyer James
- Sawyer Taylor
- Sawyer Morgan
- Sawyer Reese
- Sawyer Alexis
Questions about Sawyer
- What does Sawyer mean?
- Sawyer is an English name meaning "woodcutter or one who saws wood".
- How do you pronounce Sawyer?
- Sawyer is pronounced SAW-yer, with emphasis on the first syllable.
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