Honey is the English word for the sweet substance made by bees, "honey", and has been a term of endearment for centuries before parents began to use it as a given name. It belongs to the recent wave of sweet word names such as Clementine, Sunny and Daisy, and it was long used mostly as a nickname. Honey entered the US top 1000 in 2024 and ranks number 846 among girls in 2025, its best rank so far.