Honesty
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-nes-tee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #1,611 for girls
Honesty is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “truthfulness”. In 2025 it ranked 1,611th for girls in the US (129 babies).
What does Honesty mean?
English: English virtue word
“truthfulness”
A virtue name; honesty is also a garden plant grown for its papery, coin-like seed pods.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Honesty a girl's or a boy's name?
Honesty is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 129 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Honesty in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,611among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 129about 1 in 12,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 129 girls in the US were named Honesty, making it the 1,611th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,211th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 256 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975. 6 boys were also named Honesty in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
2025 had fewer girls named Honesty than any year since 2004.
Half of all the girls named Honesty in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 193 girls in the US were given Honesty or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,078, up from #1,611 for this spelling alone.
Honesty in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,611 |
| 2024 | 161 | #1,395 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,391 |
| 2022 | 199 | #1,216 |
| 2021 | 166 | #1,337 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,211 |
| 2019 | 254 | #1,010 |
| 2018 | 239 | #1,065 |
| 2017 | 211 | #1,165 |
| 2016 | 217 | #1,158 |
| 2015 | 235 | #1,104 |
| 2014 | 256 | #1,018 |
| 2013 | 233 | #1,067 |
| 2012 | 228 | #1,086 |
| 2011 | 201 | #1,196 |
| 2010 | 181 | #1,299 |
| 2009 | 190 | #1,280 |
| 2008 | 165 | #1,431 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,489 |
| 2006 | 155 | #1,444 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,525 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,561 |
| 2003 | 112 | #1,701 |
| 2002 | 122 | #1,547 |
| 2001 | 155 | #1,265 |
| 2000 | 82 | #2,012 |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,809 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,886 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,974 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,232 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,343 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,393 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,348 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,518 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,952 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,310 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,369 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,126 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,516 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,902 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,214 |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,890 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,612 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
Names like Honesty
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harmony Hadley Harley Emery Journey Harper Avery Emely Serenity Everly Addison Emmy
Other spellings of Honesty
Names related to Honesty
More English names
Lily Evelyn Hudson Ivy Grace Violet Willow Daisy Poppy Riley Oakley Mason Cooper Ruby Hallie Hazel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Honesty: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/honesty, updated 20 October 2026.