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Honesty

#1,614 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Honesty has been given to 5,051 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,614 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 256 recorded.

Babies named Honesty, 2025

1 in 25,700

Honesty over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Honesty: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Honesty means

Honesty is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Honesty is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,045 girls were recorded with the name Honesty between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 256 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,012 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,213 in 2020 to #1,614 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,104 in 2015 to #1,614 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Honesty between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2025; its best national rank was #11,165 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Honesty?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,700
129 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,614
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,814 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Honesty sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honesty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Honestys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Honesty was born before 2013 — so the typical Honesty is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,045
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (2,255).

Is Honesty 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
−218
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−401
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−510
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.4%
Peak was 2014 (256)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,012
2019

Spellings of Honesty

Honesty is the most-used spelling, taking 43.8% of the 11,509 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Honesty is used

Across 2016–2025, Honesty was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,632 girls, against 1 in 7,435 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

238 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 2,632
  2. 2Georgia1 in 3,571
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 3,704
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 3,846
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 4,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 4,348
  7. 7Ohio1 in 5,000
  8. 8Alabama1 in 5,263

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.

Honesty around the world

Where Honesty ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2004
    #4,598
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Honesty by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,614
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 401
Best rank ever
#1,012
2019
Peak year
2014
256 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,045
Count in 2025
129

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,165
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,165
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Honesty

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HonestiHoneyHonoraMajestyHonorDynastyCristyDustyModestyHonestHonourAunestyHonestiiChristyKristyHonoriaKirstyAhnestyHonoreEstyKhristyHonesteeOnestyAonesty

Names with a curve like Honesty

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Honesty, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ElaynaMontserratAmiaKaleahAilynCarsynRayleeMalakAliahDalilahMaliahEllery

Sibling names for Honesty

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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