The SAYERS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,403	4431	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	2,212	2734	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+5191	-1697	-0.001	-17
Other Countries
Australia	1,183	1395	0.007	72
United Kingdom	4,978	1260	0.011	108

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SAYERS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SAYERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SAYERS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SAYERS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	328	4.43
Native American/Alaskan	187	2.53
White (Hispanic)	149	2.01
Mixed Race	118	1.59
Asian/Pacific	39	0.53
White (Caucasian)	6,582	88.91

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAYERS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SAYERS in historical publications

SAYER, whence SAYERS. An assayer of metals. Also an Anglo-Norman personal name, as Saher de Quincy, the famous Earl of Winchester. Sayer and Sayere in the Hund. Rolls, without the prefix le, seem to give the latter derivation the preference. With regard to the former, Kelham observes, that " when Domesday ■was compiled, there was always a fire ready in the Exchequer, and if they liked not the allay of the money, they burnt it, and then ■weighed it." Hence the expression in Domesday, ' Lib. LVI arsas et pensatas' — o61b. burnt and weighed. — Kelham's Domesday, p. 157. The Sayer would therefore be a crown officer who assayed the precious metals.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to SAYERS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAYERS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.