Honey

Where Honey comes from

The dictionaries list Honey as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,144 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Honey Irani born
    Indian actress and screenwriter
  3. 1984
    Honey Thaljieh born
    former Palestinian national football player; women's activist; communications manager at FIFA
  4. 2025
    Peak, #844
    322 babies named Honey — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name
Namesakes
  • Honey Irani · Indian actress and screenwriter, born 1955
  • Honey Benjamin · politician of the Communist Party of India
  • Honey Thaljieh · former Palestinian national football player; women's activist; communications manager at FIFA, born 1984
  • Honey Harlow · American exotic dancer, 1927–2005
  • Honey Cocaine · Canadian female rapper, born 1992

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.