Sayers

Sayers is the 4,735th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,251 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 41,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,251
Rank: 4,735th
How common: 1 in 41,200
Per 100,000: 2.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
Goldie Sayers (born 1982)British javelin thrower

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

Surnames like Sayers

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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.