Sweetie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sweetie has been given to 373 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1916, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Sweetie, 2001
1 in 748,000
Sweetie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sweetie?
Sweetie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sweetie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sweetie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sweeties were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sweetie was born before 1919 — so the typical Sweetie is around 106 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 26.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 26.0% of all recorded uses (97).
Is Sweetie 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (20)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.5% average annual change
Where Sweetie is used
Across 1910–2025, Sweetie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 217,655 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Georgia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sweetie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sweetie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sweetie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sweetie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.