Sayer

Sayer is the 10,479th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,923 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 102,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,923
Rank: 10,479th
How common: 1 in 102,000
Per 100,000: 0.98

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Of multiple origins, including an occupational surname for a sawyer, or an assayer of metals, or a seller of serge cloth (Middle English say), or a sewer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sayer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Sayer

Leo Sayer (born 1948)British singer

People named Sayer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sayer

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.