Honey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from OE hunig ‘honey’, used as a term of endearment ‘sweetheart, darling’; first attested Geoffrey Hony 1275 SRWo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hʌni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Honey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 92K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE hunig ‘honey’, used as a term of endearment ‘sweetheart, darling’; first attested Geoffrey Hony 1275 SRWo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Honey counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Honey | 103 |
| US United States | 3,615 | 1 in 92K | 3.4K | Honey | 328 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Honey | 37 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Honey | 37 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Honey | 30 |
| AU Australia | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 1 | Honey | 145 |
| SG Singapore | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Honey | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Honey is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, English common noun meaning “honey”; used as a given name in the U.S.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In English, tional name for a gatherer or seller of honey, OE hunig, or nickname from the same word used as a term of endear¬ ment, a sense which was common in medieval England. Vars.: Hon(n)eyman. from Finn, honka pine + the gen. suffix -nen.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper or a gatherer or seller of honey. Middle English hony (Old English hunig), or a nickname from the same word used as a term of endearment, a sense which was common in medieval England.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From the vocabulary word (Old English huneg). Honey was used throughout the Middle Ages in place of sugar (which was only introduced from the New
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Honey Harlowb. 1927USAmerican exotic dancer (1927–2005)
- Honey Fisherb. 1954film director (born 1954)
- Honey Iranib. 1955INIndian actress and screenwriter
- Honey Deihimib. 1974ATAustrian jurist
- Honey Hollmanb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Honey Thaljiehb. 1984PSformer Palestinian national football player; women's activist; communications manager at FIFA
- Honey Davenportb. 1985USAmerican drag queen
- Mia Threapletonb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress (born 2000)
- Honey Hayesb. 2001USAmerican pornographic actress
- Honey BenjaminINpolitician of the Communist Party of India
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #4,925 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 322 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 179 | #4,925 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #839 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Honey mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE hunig ‘honey’, used as a term of endearment ‘sweetheart, darling’; first attested Geoffrey Hony 1275 SRWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Honey a male or female name?
- Honey is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Honey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Honey in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled honey.
- How do you pronounce Honey?
- A machine transcription gives /hʌni/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Honey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,615 people named Honey in 2020, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honeyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Honey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.