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Sayer

in the US

There are 2,652 people with the last name "Sayer" in the United States.

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Sayer 9,592
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  5. is 9,592nd most common Sayer
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Similar Names and Nicknames

Sayers, Sauer, Sayed, Sayegh, Saye, Seyer, Skyer, Sayeed, Sayen, Sayes

Most Common First Names for Sayer

John, Robert, James, David, Michael, William, Mary, Scott, Thomas, Nancy

Meaning & History

English: from the Middle English personal name Saher or Seir. This is probably a Norman introduction of the Continental Germanic personal name Sigiheri, composed of the elements sigi ‘victory’ + heri ‘army’. However, it could also represent a Middle English survival of an unrecorded Old English name, Sǣhere, composed of the elements sǣ ‘sea’ + here ‘army’.

English: occupational name, from Middle English saghier (see Sawyer) or Old French seieor.

English: occupational name for a professional reciter, from an agent derivative of Middle English say(en), sey(en) ‘to say’.

English: from a reduced form of Middle English assayer, an agent derivative of assay ‘trial’, ‘test’, Old French essay (from Late Latin exagium, a derivative of exagmināre ‘to weigh’), hence an occupational name for an assayer of metals or a taster of food.

English: occupational name for a maker or seller of say, a type of cloth, from Middle English say + the agent suffix -er. See also Say.

Welsh: occupational name from Welsh saer ‘carpenter’ or from saer maen ‘stonecutter’, i.e. mason.

French: occupational name for a reaper or mower, from an agent derivative of Old French seer ‘to cut’ (Latin secare).

Dutch: occupational name for a weaver of serge, from an agent derivative of saai ‘serge’.

Dutch: occupational name from zaaier ‘sower’.

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