Honesty
#1,611 for girls in 2025, 129 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 254 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,045since 1975
Honesty over time
Rank among girls' names. Honesty has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,611 | 129 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #1,395 | 161 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,391 | 161 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,216 | 199 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,337 | 166 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,211 | 189 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,010 | 254 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,065 | 239 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,165 | 211 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,158 | 217 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,104 | 235 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,018 | 256 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,067 | 233 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,086 | 228 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,196 | 201 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,299 | 181 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,280 | 190 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,431 | 165 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,489 | 155 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,444 | 155 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,525 | 135 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,562 | 126 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,702 | 112 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,548 | 122 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,266 | 155 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,016 | 82 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,812 | 48 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,889 | 45 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,977 | 40 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,348 | 23 | — | |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,399 | 17 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,517 | 16 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Honesty! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Honesty is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#614 · 1 in 2,613
- Maryland#840 · 1 in 3,997
- North Carolina#1,057 · 1 in 5,810
- New Jersey#1,168 · 1 in 7,100
- Virginia#1,180 · 1 in 6,748
Best ever in a state: #255 in District of Columbia, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #614 | 7 | 1 in 2,613 |
| Maryland | #840 | 5 | 1 in 3,997 |
| North Carolina | #1,057 | 8 | 1 in 5,810 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,100 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 7 | 1 in 6,458 |
| New York | #1,312 | 10 | 1 in 7,833 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 9 | 1 in 9,640 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| Texas | #1,714 | 13 | 1 in 12,349 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Honesty
- 216 spots since 2024 (#1,395 → #1,611)
- 400 spots since 2020 (#1,211 → #1,611)
- 507 spots since 2015 (#1,104 → #1,611)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2019 at #1,010 (254 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,608 girls born in 2019 were named Honesty (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,459 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.7% of all girls named Honesty (2,255) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 57 | #3,903 (1979) | #5,938 |
| 1980s | 86 | #4,517 (1980) | #7,836 |
| 1990s | 245 | #2,812 (1999) | #5,923 |
| 2000s | 1,397 | #1,266 (2001) | #1,526 |
| 2010s | 2,255 | #1,010 (2019) | #1,117 |
| 2020s | 1,005 | #1,211 (2020) | #1,360 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Honesty in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,459 of them was named Honesty, which outranked 90.7% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,605Nariyah130
- #1,605Serene130
- #1,605Zamora130
- #1,611Honesty129
- #1,611Aavya129
- #1,611Asma129
- #1,611Elly129
- #1,622Cristina128
- #1,622Eris128
- #1,622Estela128
Tied with 10 names at #1,611; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 284,679 of them was named Honesty, which outranked 23.2% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #9,714Zyn7
- #9,714Zyonn7
- #9,714Zyree7
- #10,695Honesty6
- #10,695Aadhyan6
- #10,695Aadish6
- #10,695Aamari6
- #12,008Aadan5
- #12,008Aadhavan5
- #12,008Aalam5
Tied with 1,312 names at #10,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.