Honest
#5,619 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Honest has been given to 604 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #5,619 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 50 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 53% girls, 47% boys all-time.
Babies named Honest, 2025
1 in 151,000
Honest 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Honest over time
In 2025, Honest went to 49% girls and 51% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Honest?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 151,000
- 22 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 73,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #5,619
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 104,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Honest sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honest. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Honests were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Honest was born before 2020 — so the typical Honest is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 53.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 323
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (174).
Is Honest 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
- −1,016
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −403
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +700
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.10×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 44.0%
- Peak was 2022 (50)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.2% average annual change
Spellings of Honest
Honest is not the most common spelling — Honesty is, with 27.7% against Honest's 1.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Honest is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Honest was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 523,450 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Honest has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Honest is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Honest was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,005,789 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Honest has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Honest by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Honest
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Honest
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.