Honey

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Honey: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Honey: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #152 in 2005, and it stood at #413 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#152highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1450
1998	#1319
1999	#1261
2000	#1195
2001	#710
2002	#523
2003	#342
2004	#233
2005	#152
2006	#186
2007	#186
2008	#190
2009	#185
2010	#195
2011	#200
2012	#207
2013	#276
2014	#320
2015	#295
2016	#270
2017	#461
2018	#465
2019	#396
2020	#349
2021	#309
2022	#380
2023	#270
2024	#252

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #252 among girls in England and Wales, #295 among girls in Scotland, #504 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #152 among girls in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #413 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Honey appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,410 births with the name.

Honey across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Honey's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#152 (2005)	#252 (2024)	29 of 29	4,410 (1996–2024)	338 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#576 (2004)	#413 (2025)	#413 (2025)	11 of 22	58 (2004–2025)	9 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#377 (2005)	#328 (2023)	#328 (2023)	2 of 19	7 (2005–2023)	4 (2023)

Honey by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Honey in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	48	4 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	1,892	10 of 10	189
2010s	1,721	10 of 10	172
2020s	749	5 of 10	150

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 189 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2004 and 2005, when recorded births rose by 142, from 196 to 338.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Honey appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #152 in England and Wales in 2005.

Honey's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#252	192	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#270	166	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#380	112	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#309	152	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#349	127	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#396	109	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#465	93	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#461	96	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#270	185	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#295	162	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#320	145	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#276	171	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#207	243	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#200	255	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#195	262	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#185	290	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#190	279	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#186	291	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#186	281	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#152	338	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#233	196	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#342	109	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#523	57	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1450	12	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#328	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#413	9	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#504	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#510	8	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#295	12	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #152, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 338 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Holly-Rose · #1991, 17y
Holy · #1914, 12y
Honey-Rose · #1956, 17y
Hong · #360, 38y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Beatrix · #152, 30y
Macie · #152, 28y
Alayna · #153, 30y
Lennon · #153, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Beatrix · #152, 30y
Innes · #152, 28y
Macie · #152, 28y
Alayna · #153, 30y

Honey was ranked #152 in England and Wales · Girls in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Honey and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Honey without appearing here.

Honey moved ahead of

Amalie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #3824.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #3824.
Evan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #3174.
Lynette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #1450 and #3174.

Moved ahead of Honey

Maja Compare
In 2006 they stood at #576 and #677 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #842 and #110.
Aurora Compare
In 2015 they stood at #510 and #695 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #868 and #316.
Olive Compare
In 2015 they stood at #510 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #868 and #390.
Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #207 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #276 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Honey

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Honey

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Honey went from #2096 to #252 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #152 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Honey

Honey at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Honey across 3 official records

Honey by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Honey appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Honey at a glance

Honey across 3 official records

Honey by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Honey appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Honey

Honey and the names beside it

Honey moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Honey

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