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Sweet

Girls' name

Sweet

Sweet has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 1979. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Sweet, 2013

1 in 729,000

Sweet over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sweet: meaning, origin, and history

Sweet

English

What Sweet means

Sweet means “sweet”, associated with süß.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As an English surname, from the adjective sweet. * As a German and Jewish surname, translated from Suess, from süß (“sweet”). * As a French surname, translated from Ledoux.

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Origin, language, and formation

Sweet is used in English and Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Sweet is pronounced /ˈsweet/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Sweet between 1979 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #8,901 in 1979.

How common is Sweet?

Sweet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sweet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sweet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sweets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sweet was born before 2005 — so the typical Sweet is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
65
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 58.5% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Sweet rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (8)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,901
1979

Sweet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,901
1979
Peak year
2001
8 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sweet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SwedenGeetSwechaSwetaPreetJapneetGuneetSwethaReetManreetAvreetGurneetAvneetJasneetJasreetPuneetManmeetNavreetSamreetSwendyAnureetSweetieHarneetSupreet

Sibling names for Sweet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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