Honesti
Honesti was given to 57 girls in 2025, #2,942 among girls’ names; 1,124 Americans have been recorded with it since 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Honesti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Honesti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Honesti mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Honesti is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Honesti?
#2,942 among girls’ names, 2025
Honesti rose from #3,272 in 2015 to #2,942 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 35.5 per million.
85 babies in 2023, the peak
Honesti peaked in 2023, when 85 girls were given it, #2,217 among girls’ names. The 57 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | #2,942 | 35.5 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,396 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,217 | 53.0 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,415 | 46.3 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,498 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,795 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,467 | 42.9 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,921 | 33.5 |
| 2017 | 56 | #2,946 | 32.4 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,392 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,272 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,017 | 31.3 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,376 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,951 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,725 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,855 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,698 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,541 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,406 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,607 | 12.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,665 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,475 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,744 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,233 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,433 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,210 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Honesti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Honesti has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Honesti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Honesti, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,124 Americans ever recorded as Honesti. The median Honesti alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 511 people named Honesti (508 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 710 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 312 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 804 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,657 babies since 1880, Honesti is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 207 babies (28%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Honesti
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Honesti and names like it
- Compare Honesti and HonestyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHonesti peaked in 2023.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Honesti since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Honesti: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Honesti.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Honesti alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.