Saw
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SAW
- US rank, 2025
- #7,190 for boys
Saw is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).
What does Saw mean?
Karen honorific for men, from Burma (Myanmar)
Saw is the customary title that begins the names of Karen men from Myanmar, so it is often recorded as a first name.
Is Saw a girl's or a boy's name?
Saw is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saw in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,190th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 160,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Saw, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the boys named Saw in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Saw in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,190 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,441 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,932 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,316 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,462 |
| 2016 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2015 | 31 | #3,512 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,619 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,476 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,429 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
Names like Saw
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayd, Zayn, Saif, Musa, Salem, Zahir, Zamir, Zayan, Azaiah, Azai, Hamza, Sanad
Names related to Saw
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Saw: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saw, updated 20 October 2026.