Hone
609 NZ births on record
Where Hone stands
609NZ births · 1914–2025
Hone has been registered 609 times in New Zealand since 1914. It did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so the DIA published no figure for it that year.
Its moment was 1949, when 22 babies were given it. In 50 of the years between, the name fell under the 10-birth floor and the registrar published nothing — those years are the marks along the base of the chart, not gaps in the name's use.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How Hone's figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site. The SSA files are the agency's own, retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- The reporting floor. Each registrar publishes a name only once it clears a threshold — 5 births of that sex in the US, 10 in New Zealand. Expressed as a share that threshold is itself a curve, and it is drawn on every chart here as the shaded band along the base.
- A missing year is a suppressed value, never a zero. Where the registrar published nothing, this site prints “below floor” or “<5”, the curve is broken rather than drawn across the gap, and the missing years are marked on the floor line. Hone was under the floor in 50 years of its NZ record.
share per 100,000 = births ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000 reporting floor (share) = 10 ÷ all births of that sex that year × 100,000
Hone in the United States
Between 1989 and 2009 the name has been rising — up 37% as a share of boys' births.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. retrieved from the Internet Archive's 2026 snapshot of ssa.gov (ssa.gov refuses automated requests); files unmodified. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Hone in New Zealand
In New Zealand, Hone has been registered 609 times since 1914, peaking in 1949 with 22 births. It did not clear the DIA's 10-birth reporting floor in 2025.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Hone in England & Wales
Hone does not appear in the ONS list for England and Wales. That means it was given to fewer than 3 babies in every year from 2019 to 2025 — not that it is unused there. ONS publishes only those seven years, so a name that had its moment in England before 2019 is invisible here however common it once was.
SOURCE·Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales·Open Government Licence v3.0. ONS redacts any name given to 2 or fewer babies of that sex that year, under s40 of the Freedom of Information Act.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about Hone
How popular is the name Hone?
Hone did not clear the 10-birth reporting floor in 2025, so no figure was published for it that year. Its best NZ rank was #111 in 1939.
When was Hone most popular?
Hone peaked in 1949, when 22 babies in New Zealand were given the name.
Is Hone rising or falling?
Measured as a share of all boys' births, Hone has been rising between 1989 and 2009 (+37%).
Names that had their moment when Hone did
Same sex, peaking within a few years of 1949, at a comparable scale. Not a taste engine — this is arithmetic on peak years, which is why it will occasionally hand you something unfashionable that is nonetheless exactly of the period.
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026
