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 1975
No state had 5 or more girls named Honesty in 1975, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 291,572 of them was named Honesty, which outranked 14.6% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,551 names at #9,067; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.