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Sawyer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by
sawing wood, Middle English saghier, an agent derivative of
sagh(en) ‘to saw’.Americanized form of some like-sounding
Jewish surname or a translation of Seger.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sawyer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sawyer families
 429 - 856  144 - 428 |
 1 - 143  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sawyer families
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622 - 1,242 208 - 621 |
1 - 207 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sawyer families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sawyer Family Origin
Sawyer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sawyer
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Sawyer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sawyer census records
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