Honesty
Honesty was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,614 among girls’ names; 5,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,010 Americans named Honesty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Honesty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Honesty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Honesty is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Honesty?
#1,614 among girls’ names, 2025
Honesty fell from #1,104 in 2015 to #1,614 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.08 per 1,000.
256 babies in 2014, the peak
Honesty peaked in 2014, when 256 girls were given it, #1,021 among girls’ names. The 135 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 161 | #1,396 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,398 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 199 | #1,217 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,213 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 254 | #1,012 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,068 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 211 | #1,170 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,160 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 235 | #1,104 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 256 | #1,021 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 233 | #1,067 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 228 | #1,086 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,198 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,302 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,280 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 165 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,498 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 155 | #1,445 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,529 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,565 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 112 | #1,703 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,550 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,270 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,021 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,820 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,897 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,992 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,392 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,438 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,497 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,771 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,095 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,935 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,575 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,155 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,532 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,526 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,429 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,587 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,952 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,307 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,114 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,713 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,578 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Honesty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Honesty has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Honesty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Honesty, and how old are they?
5,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,051 Americans ever recorded as Honesty. The median Honesty alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 3,026 people named Honesty (2,998 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 69 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 177 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,640 |
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).
Where are babies named Honesty born?
The states with the most babies named Honesty are Texas, New York and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 13 | #1,739 | 0.6× |
| New York | 10 | #1,359 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,475 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,091 | 2.0× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,266 | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 7 | #635 | 2.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,905 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,550 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,256 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,244 | 0.6× |
Where Honesty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Honesty is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1975 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Honesty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,657 babies since 1880, Honesty is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 135 of their 207 babies (65%), again the 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 Honesty
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 Honesty and names like it
- Compare Honesty and HonestiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHonesty peaked in 2014.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Honesty since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Honesty.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Honesty alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.