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Sawyer

Sawyer ranks #531 out of 682 boy cat names in our data (the #1 boy cat name is Charlie). Across all 2 places, 3 cats carry the name. It's also a dog name: #303 among boy dog names.
Sawyer's popularity trend

Sawyer's share of cats, year by year — or toggle to its yearly rank.

0.005%0.01%0.015%20122014201620182019
Cats in our data
3
across 2 places
Popularity rank
#531
of 682 boy cat names
5-year rank move
−4,557
2014 → 2019
Gender split
94% male
6% female94% male

Gender split comes from 18 US shelter cats — the one source in our data that records a cat's sex.

What does Sawyer mean?
2 syllablesOrigin: a surname

Sawyer is an English occupational surname for someone who saws wood, from the Middle English sawen, "to saw." Like other occupational surnames such as Mason or Carter, it moved into use as a first name in recent decades, helped along by its familiarity as a literary name — Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.

Sawyer has an outdoorsy, adventurous ring that suits an energetic pet who loves being outside. It works nicely for a dog or cat with a scrappy, curious streak.

Etymology & pronunciation from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Where Sawyer shows up

Cats named Sawyer per place, against that place's total.

PlaceShare
SeattleWA, US0.02%
TorontoON, CA<0.01%