# Honesty (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/honesty/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,051 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 5,045 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 201 | 1,198 |
| 2012 | 228 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | 233 | 1,067 |
| 2014 | 256 | 1,021 |
| 2015 | 235 | 1,104 |
| 2016 | 217 | 1,160 |
| 2017 | 211 | 1,170 |
| 2018 | 239 | 1,068 |
| 2019 | 254 | 1,012 |
| 2020 | 189 | 1,213 |
| 2021 | 166 | 1,338 |
| 2022 | 199 | 1,217 |
| 2023 | 161 | 1,398 |
| 2024 | 161 | 1,396 |
| 2025 | 129 | 1,614 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | 11,169 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.