Honey: Meaning of Baby Name Honey

Honey Popularity Snapshot

Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 4,431 baby girls have been named Honey. The name peaked in 2024 with 282 US births that year (rank #935). In 2024, ranked #935 nationally.

Top States for Honey

Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Honey births are: California (484), Texas (304), New York (163).

Other English-Origin Names Like Honey

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5-Letter Names Starting with H

Names with Honey's exact length and starting letter: Haani, Habib, Hadad, Hadar, Haden.

Quick Facts About Honey

5,642

English baby names in our dictionary

2,251

English female names

153

5-letter H-names in our dictionary

259

H-female names total

2024–2025

years of US SSA records (2 total)

604

total US births named Honey (all years)

US Popularity History (2024–2025)

🔥 Rising fast: Honey climbed 89 places in the US girls ranking over the last 1 years (#935 in 2024 → #846 in 2025).

Annual US births named Honey by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 322 girls named Honey (girl rank #846 that year).

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Honey Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Honey the strongest states are Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Arkansas	#457	30
2	Tennessee	#723	32
3	Missouri	#737	22
4	Arizona	#789	24
5	Colorado	#902	16

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Colorado	#902	16
2	Arizona	#789	24
3	Missouri	#737	22
4	Tennessee	#723	32
5	Arkansas	#457	30

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Honey in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

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Compare Honey to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Honey against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).

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