Sayer Family Crest & Name History

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Family name meaning

Spelled Sayer, the surname still points back to Sawyer. Read literally, Sayer points to “Sawer of timber”.

Records show Sayer as one of the forms Sawyer took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. You may also find the name written Sawyers and Sawier. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Sayer with 3,395 bearers, at rank 9,573. French birth records list 652 children named Sayer between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

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