Honey
A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning sweet substance made by bees.
Babies a year
253
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#846
up from #935
UK popularity
#199
253 babies · up from #252
How Honey has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2024 | #935 |
| 2025 | #846 |
Honey by the numbers
In 2025, 253 babies in England and Wales were named Honey. In the US, 40 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 109 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Honey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Haleyhay meadow; dweller in the hay clearing943 in the US (2017)
- Henleyhigh wood or clearing670 in the US (2017)
- Hollythe holly plant285 in England and Wales (2025)
- Honorhonor, integrity, virtue203 in the US (2017)
- Hindydoe or hind; a diminutive of Hinda15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Hanleyhigh wood or clearing43 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a bee
Like Honey, each of these has a bee in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Melissahoney bee1,168 in the US (2017)
- Melinahoney; form of Melissa or Melina486 in the US (2017)
- Deborahbee68 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pamelaall honey; literary coinage by Philip Sidney153 in the US (2017)
- Melindahoney; a blend of Melissa and Belinda128 in the US (2017)
- Devorahbee; Hebrew spelling of Deborah108 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Honey
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