First name origin & meaning:
Middle English: Woodsman
First name variations: Saw, Sayer, Sayers, Sayre, Sayres
Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
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