Given name
Honi
“a gracious man”
Honi is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “a gracious man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “a gracious man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1949. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Honi is a variant of Honey. The history of Honey gives this family its wider story. Honey appears as a given name in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. That literary use helped give an old term of endearment a place among modern first names.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Honi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 51
- 0 boys · 51 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 129 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Honi’s family of names
Honi has a related form in Honey. Honi has a related form in Honey. Honi has a related form in Honea.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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