How Many People Are Named Honey?
An estimated 3,734 people in the United States have the first name Honey. It is almost exclusively a female name. The average bearer is 29 years old, and Honey peaked in popularity in 2024 with 282 births that year.
Below you will find a full statistical profile of Honey as a first name in the United States, including gender data, a year-by-year popularity timeline going back to 1880, a decade breakdown, and state-by-state birth registrations. You can also check how many people share the full name Honey paired with any surname.
Estimated Living Americans
3,734
About 1 in 91,793 people in the U.S.
Rarity
Rare
Predicted Gender
Female
100.0% confidence
Average Age
29
years old
Peak Year
2024
282 births
Total Registered
4,431
since 1880
Gender Distribution for Honey
Honey is almost exclusively a female name. Out of 4,431 total births registered, 100.0% were female.
Honey as a female name
Ranked #935 in 2024
282 female births in 2024
Peak: 2024 (282 births)
Honey: Popularity Over Time
SSA records for Honey span from the 1910s to the 2020s, covering 12 decades of naming data. The most popular decade for this name was the 2020s, when 918 babies were registered. Honey remains highly popular today, with recent registration numbers near its historical peak.
Honey by Decade
How has Honey tracked across different eras? The table below groups all SSA birth registrations into 10-year periods, with separate male and female counts. The colored bar shows each decade's share relative to the peak.
Honey by State
Birth registrations for Honey span all 32 states and territories in the SSA database. The highest counts are in California, Texas, New York. The lowest are in Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii. On average, about 50 Honeys were registered per state.
Honey + Last Name Combinations
How many people share a full name with Honey as the first name? Click a combination below to see the estimate, or search any pairing.
Names Similar to Honey
Other first names starting with H with a similar number of bearers.
Honey: Questions and Answers
How many people in the U.S. are named Honey?
We estimate approximately 3,734 people named Honey are alive in the United States today. This is based on SSA birth records from 1880 to 2024, adjusted for mortality using CDC life tables. About 1 in 91,793 Americans share this first name.
Is Honey a common name?
Honey is classified as "Rare" and is more popular than 95.8% of all first names in the SSA database. A total of 4,431 births have been registered with this name since 1880.
When was Honey most popular?
Honey reached peak popularity in 2024, when 282 babies were given this name. The average age of a living person named Honey is approximately 29 years old, reflecting when the name was most commonly given.
Is Honey a female name?
Honey is predominantly female. 100.0% of people with this name are female. See the gender breakdown above for full details.
How many Honey Smiths are there?
To find how many people share a specific full name, we combine first name and surname frequencies. Try: Honey Smith, Honey Johnson, Honey Williams. You can also search any combination on our homepage.
Where does this data come from?
Our estimates use Social Security Administration birth records (1880 to 2024), adjusted for survival using CDC 2023 life tables broken down by sex. The U.S. population figure (342,754,338) is from the Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate. Full methodology.
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