Sugar — unisex name

What the Data Says About Sugar

The Social Security Administration has registered 135 babies named Sugar between 1965 and 2016, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sugar currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Sugar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 46 additional births since 1951.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sugar performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 72 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Sugar shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sugar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 135 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.