Given name & surname
Sugar
“a sweetheart”
Sugar is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “a sweetheart.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a sweetheart.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sugar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 181
- 46 boys · 135 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 463 as a first name in 2020; 1,433 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Sugar’s family of names
In English usage, Sugar as a surname has a related form in SHUGARS.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Sugar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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