Honest — #4634 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Honest

The Social Security Administration has registered 301 babies named Honest between 2006 and 2024, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Honest currently holds the #4634 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Honest is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 256 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Honest performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 152 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Honest shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Honest in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Honest 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 301 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.