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Honesti vs Honorato

American parents have registered 1,124 Honestis since 1880, against 11 Honoratos. Honesti is still ahead, with 57 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Honesti against Honorato, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Honesti Honorato

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 28 years in which either name was published, Honesti for 26 years and Honorato for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Honesti Honorato
Total US births 1,12411
Most in one year 856
Babies in 2025 57under 5
Estimated living today 1,1003
Median age today 880
Peak year 20231931
Best rank 2,210th girls3,390th boys
Rank in 2025 2,933rdunranked
First recorded 20001931
Girls / boys 1,124 / 00 / 11

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Honoratos alive today are over 80; half the Honestis are over 8. That is 72 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Honesti and Honorato.