Honey

What Honey means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Honey yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #199 vs #844 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Honey?

US: Rising: up from #3299 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #295 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 322 girls got the name (#844 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 4,992 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,001 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.33 per 1,000 girls), AR (1.89 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.7 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Honey is #844 in the US and #199 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Honey were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Henny66 US · 6 E&W
• Hanny15 US
• Hunny6 US
• Hany0 US · 4 E&W
• Heny0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Honey

Girls

• Lainey#30Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #576 in 2015, #30 in 2025
• Ailany#14Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,842 in 2015, #14 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Aylani#293Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,595 in 2015, #293 in 2025
• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*

For a brother

• Emilio#154Spanish and Italian, meaning “rival”^*
• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025
• Bodie#275Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #958 in 2015, #275 in 2025
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Tate#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #420 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Honey’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.