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Names That Mean Sweet

Sophie Kihm
By Sophie Kihm
Updated Mon Feb 12 2024
Names That Mean Sweet

Names that mean sweet can be connected to sugary treats like candy or sundaes, or related to sweetness found in nature, like honey, maple, and nectar.

Sweet baby names include familiar word names such as Baker and Sugar, as well as names with less obvious links to sweetness, like Jarah and Eulalie.

Along with Baker, other names that mean sweet in the US Top 1000 include Melissa, Melina, Anika, Myra, and Angelica.

Sweet names popular internationally including Dulcie, Honey, Laia, and Asel.

Everyone thinks their baby is the sweetest, and that can come across in your child’s name. Here are examples of names with sweet meanings for a sweet baby, ordered by their current popularity on Nameberry.

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  1. Maple

    • Origin:

      English tree name from Latin

    • Meaning:

      "maple tree; tree of the Acer genus"

    • Description:

      Maple is one of those sweet-spot word names that sounds so almost name-like that it doesn't feel outlandish or strange, despite its relative newness as a given name. Just as Juniper is adjacent to June or Pippa, Clover like Chloe or Clara and Ember like Emma or Ebba, Maple is enough like Mabel, Maisie and Mae that it blends in well and has a touch of borrowed vintage charm.
  2. Myra

    • Origin:

      Greek

    • Meaning:

      "sweet-smelling oil"

    • Description:

      As with many grandmother-y names, this choice may be coming back into style.
  3. Eulalia

    • Origin:

      Greek

    • Meaning:

      "sweetly speaking"

    • Description:

      Eulalia is a melodious name with a southern drawl, thanks to those lilting double Ls and similarity to similar Eudora and Eula. Familiar in the US in the early 20th century, it was also a popular choice in Brazil and Spain until the 60s when it fell out of style.
  4. Angelica

    • Origin:

      Italian, Polish, Russian diminutive of Angela

    • Meaning:

      "angel or angelic"

    • Description:

      Angelica is by far the choicest form of the angelic names -- more delicate than Angelina, more feminine than Angel, more modern than Angela. But though Angelica is so lacy and poetic, it lags behind the bolder Angelina (probably for obvious reasons).
  5. Baker

    • Origin:

      English occupational surname

    • Description:

      One of the most appealing of the newly hip occupational names, evoking sweet smells emanating from the oven. Much fresher sounding than than others that have been around for a while, like Cooper, and Carter.
  6. Melissa

    • Origin:

      Greek

    • Meaning:

      "honeybee"

    • Description:

      Melissa derives from the Greek word mélissa, meaning "bee," which was taken from the word for honey, meli. In Greek mythology, Melissa was a nymph who nursed the infant god Zeus with honey. Melissa was used as a given name by the early Greeks, as well as for fairies by Italian Renaissance poets.
  7. Pamela

    • Origin:

      English

    • Meaning:

      "all honey"

    • Description:

      Pam was a somewhat pampered prom queen of the sixties who was never called by her full name, which is a pity because Pamela is so mellifluous and rich in literary history. A Top 25 name from the late 1940's through the late 60's, Pamela has just, sadly, dropped out of the Top 1000.
  8. Honey

    • Origin:

      Word name

    • Description:

      Honey entered the US Top 1000 for the first time ever in 2024, following the lead of parents in England, who've elevated this nickname-name to the Top 300 girls' names in the UK. Honey's popularity in the UK can be credited to its status as a cute British celebrity baby name, used by actress Kate Winslet, chef Jamie Oliver, and TV presenter Fearne Cotton, among others.
  9. Eulalie

    • Origin:

      French form of Eulalia, Greek

    • Meaning:

      "sweetly speaking"

    • Description:

      Eulalie hasn't ranked in the US Top 1000 since 1899, but its French roots might make it more appealing to modern ears than its sister Eulalia.
  10. Melina

    • Origin:

      Greek

    • Meaning:

      "little honey"

    • Description:

      This traditional Greek name has held somewhat steady in the lower half of the US Top 1000 for the past 25 years, which makes it a great option for parents looking for a name that both fits in and stands out.
  11. Dulcie

    • Origin:

      Latin, diminutive of Dulcibella

    • Meaning:

      "sweet"

    • Description:

      A sweet-meaning and sounding name dating back to the Roman Empire, and later found in the antebellum South, Dulcie has in the modern era been heard most often in Australia.
  12. Anika

    • Origin:

      Nordic diminutive of Anne or African, Hausa

    • Meaning:

      "sweetness of face"

    • Description:

      Anike is an attractive name with ties to several cultures, both African and Scandinavian. The African pronunciation emphasizes the second syllable while the Nordic one emphasizes the first. While there will be inevitable confusion over pronunciation, either form is "correct".
  13. Brix

    • Origin:

      Short form of Brixton, place-name and surname, English

    • Meaning:

      "stone of Brixi"

    • Description:

      Brixi was a Saxon lord thought to have erected a stone boundary of an ancient meeting place on the site that is now Brixton, a suburb in south London. Brixton is a newly fashionable boys' name and shortened form Brix was used for more than 40 baby boys in the US last year.
  14. Dawsey

    • Origin:

      English surname

    • Meaning:

      "soft, sweet; or son of David"

    • Description:

      This intriguing surname name belongs to a character in the 2008 novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. Its origins are not entirely clear. It may derive from David, like Dawson or Dawes, or it may derive from French doux, douce "soft, sweet".
  15. Rihanna

    • Origin:

      Arabic

    • Meaning:

      "sweet basil"

    • Description:

      Many will associate Rihanna with the Barbados-born singer, known mononymously by her middle name. During her early years of fame, when "Umbrella" was on the radio and "Take a Bow" was playing through the iPod Shuffle, the name shot up the charts in the US, UK, France, and Puerto Rico. Though the name did fall out of the charts as rapidly as it entered and while some parents might feel it is way too tied to the mid-2000s, Rihanna was given to 165 babies in 2023.
  16. Laia

    • Origin:

      Catalan diminutive of Eulalia

    • Meaning:

      "sweet-speaking"

    • Description:

      Saint Eulalia was born in Spain and is the patron saint of Barcelona, so her name and its derivatives are popular throughout the land — especially in her native Catalonia.
  17. Rosamel

    • Origin:

      French and Spanish

    • Meaning:

      "rose and honey"

    • Description:

      A French surname turned Spanish masculine given name, Rosamel likely derives from the combination of rose + Greek mel "honey".
  18. Shirin

    • Origin:

      Persian

    • Meaning:

      "charming, sweet"

    • Description:

      An attractive unisex choice heard in several countries, including Armenia. Can be pronounced sheer-IN or sheer-EEN.
  19. Jarah

    • Origin:

      Hebrew

    • Meaning:

      "honeycomb or honeysuckle"

    • Description:

      This Old Testament name feels feminine to a modern English speaker, thought the Biblical Jarah was male. In the most recent year counted, there were seven girls and five boys given the name. With the rise of Biblical boys' names that end in vowel sounds like Noah and Ezra, Jarah may have new possibilities for boys. An alternate spelling is Jarrah, which is also a distinct Arabic name. Jared and Jareth are unrelated but similar-sounding Biblical choices for boys.
  20. Ooquna

    • Origin:

      Greenlandic

    • Meaning:

      "sweet, cute"

    • Description:

      A simplified, babbling form of the word inequnaq, meaning cute or sweet. It is traditionally shortened to Uno and can also be written as Oquna.