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How popular is the name Honey?
Births per year, rank history and how many Honeys are alive today.
Honey (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 199th in 2025 with 253 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2005, when 338 babies were given the name, the 152nd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 465 in 2018 before climbing back to the 199th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Honey you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Honeys born in England and Wales are between 8 and 19, and there are at least 4,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Honey.
How many babies are named Honey each year?
Where does Honey rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Honey most popular?
Honey peaked in 2005, when 338 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Honey?
At least 4,600 people named Honey born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Honey?
Most living Honeys are between 8 and 19; the most common age is about 20. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Honey becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.