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Honey

#846 in 2025Girls' name

A person who is much loved, through honey

Honey has been given to 4,757 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #846 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 322 recorded.

Babies named Honey, 2025

1 in 10,300

Honey over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Honey: meaning, origin, and history

A person who is much loved, through honey

English

What Honey means

Honey belongs to the name family reached through Honey → honey. Its meaning is “A person who is much loved”.

Origin, language, and formation

Honey is used in Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Honey comes through English honey.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include honey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,757 girls were recorded with the name Honey between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 322 in 2025; its best national rank was #846 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,968 in 2020 to #846 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,318 in 2015 to #846 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 Honey?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,300
322 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,990
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#846
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Honey 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Honeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Honey was born before 2004 — so the typical Honey is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,142
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (1,244).

Is Honey 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
+85
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,122
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,472
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (322)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#846
2025

Spellings of Honey

Honey is not the most common spelling — Holly is, with 29.9% against Honey's 0.69%.

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 Honey is used

Across 2016–2025, Honey was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 12,358 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,564
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 2,778
  3. 3Utah1 in 6,250
  4. 4Arizona1 in 6,667
  5. 5Missouri1 in 6,667
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 6,667
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 7,143
  8. 8Kentucky1 in 8,333

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.

Honey around the world

Where Honey 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
    1996–2025
    #199
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2005–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2024
    #4,972
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Honey

People whose public names include Honey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Honey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#846
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,122
Best rank ever
#846
2025
Peak year
2025
322 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,757
Count in 2025
322

Names similar to Honey

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

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Names with a curve like Honey

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

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Sibling names for Honey

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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