Sawyer

Timber worker's name

Sawyer is an English occupational surname derived from those who sawed wood for a living.

It gained prominence as a given name partly through Mark Twain's character Tom Sawyer: We named him Sawyer after the literary character. (Lowercase sawyer is one who saws timber, or a floating log.)

Twain

Mark

Common masculine name

author · novelist · humorist · satirist · American · literature · Mississippi · riverboat · pilot · Hartford

surname

family

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ancestry

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Opposites
occupational role

Sawyerbuilder

One who erects structures

carpenter · joiner · constructor · mason · assembler

literary character type

SawyerOliver Twist

Pollyanna

timber processing stage

Sawyerfinisher

One who completes tasks

polisher · varnisher · lumberjack · logger · planter

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Family

sawyers

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G