Honey
Honey was given to 322 girls in 2025, #846 among girls’ names; 4,757 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,170 Americans named Honey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 5 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Honey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Honey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Honey is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Honey?
#846 among girls’ names, 2025
Honey rose from #3,318 in 2015 to #846 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.20 per 1,000.
322 babies in 2025, the peak
Honey peaked in 2025, when 322 girls were given it, #846 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 285 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 322 | #846 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 285 | #931 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 206 | #1,171 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,212 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,556 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 96 | #1,968 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 57 | #2,922 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,725 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,197 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,318 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,339 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,878 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 74 | #2,481 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,960 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 83 | #2,302 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,383 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 90 | #2,211 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 101 | #2,026 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 93 | #2,099 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,782 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 77 | #2,268 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 25 | #4,991 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,067 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,847 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,740 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,166 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,713 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,361 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,065 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,265 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,908 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,115 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,131 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,158 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,009 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,387 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,351 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,262 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,563 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,385 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,237 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,694 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,870 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 76 | #1,452 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 65 | #1,551 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,450 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 79 | #1,337 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,681 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,430 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,640 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 76 | #1,295 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,689 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,906 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,697 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 35 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,811 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,850 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 18 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,418 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,549 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,564 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,806 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,002 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,769 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,184 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,717 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,777 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 16 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 15 | #2,160 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,085 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,808 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,983 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,771 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,237 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,901 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,198 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,227 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,040 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,821 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,761 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,793 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,364 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,659 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Honey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Honey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 113 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Honey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Honey, and how old are they?
4,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 4,757 Americans ever recorded as Honey. The median Honey alive today is 19 years old; half are between 5 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 3,615 people named Honey (3,436 women and girls, 179 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 103 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 338 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 869 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 337 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Honey born?
The states with the most babies named Honey are California, Texas and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 37 | #805 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 33 | #885 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 21 | #778 | 0.4× |
| Arkansas | 20 | #146 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #545 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #876 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #863 | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 10 | #624 | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #412 | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 9 | #712 | 0.9× |
Where Honey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Honey is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 1.1 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 Honey 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,808 babies since 1880, Honey is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 322 of their 322 babies (100%), 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 Honey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Alita | 2,608 |
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 Honey and names like it
- Compare Honey and HoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHoney peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Honey since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Honey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Honey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.