Highest ever

Honey

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#846
322 girls
2015
#3,318
rank
1950
#1,850
rank

Honey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 322 in 2025. Its best rank was #846 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Honey in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#846 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
322
Since 1880
4,757
Years on record
113

Babies named Honey, every year since 1880

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Girls

Honey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 322 girls in 2025. Peak: #846 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 322 (2025).

About the name Honey

In 2025, 322 US girls were named Honey, making it the 846th most common girls’ name of the year, up 85 places from #931 in 2024. That is 37 more than the 285 girls named Honey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #846, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 322. For comparison, it was #3,318 in 2015 and #1,850 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Honey in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 8 babies. In all, 4,757 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,244 babies named Honey.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,461 US girls were named Honey; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 322. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,992 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Honey ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #146 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Honi, Hunny and Honie are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

No related spellings pass our data threshold.

Rare spellings summarised here: Honi (51), Hunny (13), Honie (7).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Honey in the open dataset we use.

Honey is listed as a nickname for Honora.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Honey by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 26 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Arkansas20#146—
Hawaii5#185—
Oklahoma10#412—
Idaho5#437—
Utah9#459—
Kentucky8#526—
Tennessee14#545—
Oregon6#583—
Indiana10#624—
Missouri8#678—
Arizona9#712—
Alabama6#754—
Florida21#778—
California37#805#3,173
South Carolina5#825—
North Carolina11#863—
Georgia11#876—
Virginia8#883—
Texas33#885#2,275
Colorado5#967—
Washington6#970—
Illinois8#1,054—
Ohio8#1,067—
Michigan6#1,123—
Pennsylvania7#1,154—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025322#846——
2024285#931——
2023206#1,171——
2022200#1,212——
2021135#1,556——
202096#1,968——
201968#2,573——
201857#2,923——
201741#3,726——
201651#3,197——
201549#3,318——
201448#3,341——
201359#2,879——
201274#2,481——
201158#2,961——
201083#2,302——
200981#2,384——
200890#2,211——
2007101#2,026——
200693#2,099——
2005110#1,783——
200477#2,271——
200325#4,996——
200224#4,962——
200123#5,072——
200024#4,852——
199918#5,746——
199816#6,171——
199722#4,717——
199618#5,366——
199515#6,070——
199412#7,271——
19938#9,914——
199215#6,121——
19919#8,851——
199018#5,136——
198923#4,164——
198813#6,014——
198718#4,536——
198626#3,389——
198526#3,352——
198426#3,263——
198335#2,564——
198241#2,385——
198145#2,237——
198067#1,694——
197970#1,611——
197853#1,870——
197776#1,452——
197665#1,551——
197571#1,450——
197479#1,337——
197365#1,464——
197253#1,681——
197173#1,430——
197057#1,640——
196976#1,295——
196848#1,689——
196719#2,906——
196639#1,836——
196521#2,698——
196435#2,028——
196320#2,812——
196219#2,851——
196118#3,002——
196014#3,419——
195925#2,308——
195813#3,437——
195712#3,550——
195620#2,565——
195528#2,038——
195433#1,807——
195319#2,458——
195230#1,838——
195113#3,003——
195027#1,850——
194926#1,899——
194817#2,443——
194730#1,770——
194644#1,310——
194516#2,185——
194424#1,718——
194327#1,639——
194223#1,778——
194123#1,670——
194016#2,058——
193920#1,756——
193815#2,160——
193717#1,953——
193615#2,085——
193519#1,808——
193415#2,127——
19339#2,984——
193219#1,838——
193115#2,143——
193021#1,772——
192915#2,238——
192817#2,134——
192727#1,598——
192621#1,902——
19257#4,199——
192410#3,241——
192310#3,228——
192211#3,042——
19218#3,823——
19208#3,763——
191913#2,571——
191814#2,433——
191712#2,628——
191510#2,794——
19146#3,365——
19137#2,661——
19128#2,237——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).