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I think it sounds more like a nickname than a given name.

Honey, I’m home!
I don’t see this working as an actual name.

Very silly - a comic-strip name, or perhaps another kind of strip?

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I knew a very nice one once; she was however a golden Cocker Spaniel.

"Where's my super suit?"

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"Whaaaat?"

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"Where. Is. My. Super suit?!"

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I'm sorry, I just had to...:D

I knew a Honey. She carried it off well, but I wouldn't like to be named it. It is way too much a term of endearment to actually be a name.

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DH's dog is Honey. I don't even like that, cause it makes it super weird and almost gross when one of them says it to another human as an endearment.

Well I adore Posy and I quite like Honey too, but more for a mn. Eve Honey is a fave of mine, it randomly popped up between my DH and I some years back and I've never forgotten it! I also like Clover Honey, as I find that a sweet combo. No pun intended!

I mean...yeah, it's far too childlike, immature, sickly sweet and a million other things. However, I know a Honey and she is one of the most impressive and bad ass women that I have ever met. She is a prosecutor of sexual assault cases, super Southern (hence her name), smart as hell, quick witted, strong, commanding, funny, super dry sense of humor, and a very committed feminist. Honestly, the first time I was ever in a meeting with her, I walked out and said to one of my female professors who was also in the meeting, "I want to BE that woman. She is just...wow."

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Her name is a very strange paradox with her personality and whole demeanor but I honestly think you have to be that kind of woman to pull off the name Honey without having people snicker or eye roll about your name.

The fact that it’s a common term of endearment makes it weird to me. Made even worse by the fact that it’s often used in a condescending way in arguments or disagreements. “Oh honey.... no.”

It reminds me of Miss Honey from Matilda, and how everything associated with her seemed to a have a golden glow (or that was my perception as a kid; I haven't seen that movie in decades). And I feel like it's kind of hick chic twee (if that's even a thing), which has some appeal to me...like, Honey and Bubba could be a sibset...they give the impression of being humble and warm, nonthreatening...friendly terms you'd maybe hear in a dive with great food and blues playing on a jukebox.

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I've been called honey a lot by complete strangers...which is not something that's true of any other endearment-as-word-name...and at some point in my late twenties, I started addressing most of the baby mammals I encounter as "honey"...so it's not a name that I have trouble with being called or imagining calling someone, but it's not something I'd put on a birth certificate either. It's too sticky...or tacky...and there are word associations like honeypot.

I like it, and I’d love to meet one of any age. I used to have it on my list, but I’m not as bothered with it anymore. Partially because the term of endearment does make it a little more difficult as a given name. I think it can work really well in the middle though.

Yes darling?

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It's not so bad if I think of it as a colour, and it's a bit less precious than Posy, because it's a common everyday word.
But I wouldn't want it to be my name, and I can only imagine it on a celeb-type child who has several brothers and sisters also with silly names.

It either makes me think of an old lady in the American South, a nn for a titled Brit whose real name is Frederica, or a kid of a yuppie living in Brooklyn or Camden.

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All that said, I like it just fine. It doesn’t necessarily seem immature. Too sweet, perhaps. A bit old-timey mixed with very modern. I wouldn’t pick it, but it doesn’t bother me.

It's too sweet for my taste. *ba dum tss*

This message was edited 4/12/2018, 11:36 AM

Painful. Way too childlike, immature, and sweet. It's a term of endearment, not really a name.

It's almost pathetically rustic, and that somehow makes it less annoying to me than Daisy.
It's like Precious or Caramia - a show of sentimentality on the part of her parents. The name being an endearment, is so necessarily deliberate that it has to be innocent (or benignly ignorant if you prefer).
I think it can be pulled off without seeming too childlike, but it'd never seem sophisticated ... when you have to address her as "Honey" eventually you forget that it's an endearment, but not quickly enough.
I think Precious is a better name than Honey.
Ranking best to worst (order I'd put them in, if one had to be my own name):
Daisy
Precious
Posy
Honey
Ranking according to how well I'd personally endure calling people them:
Precious
Honey / Daisy (tied)
Posy

Not only that, but it's a common term of endearment. It's like naming a kid Sweetheart or Babe.

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Just my opinion, of course.

This message was edited 4/12/2018, 10:28 AM