# Honor (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/honor/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Honour |
| US babies named this | 4,604 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,475 / 3,129 (68% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,875, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Shortened from Honoria and Honora; later also interpreted as a virtue name by Puritans.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 99 | 1,989 |
| 2012 | 134 | 1,615 |
| 2013 | 134 | 1,607 |
| 2014 | 109 | 1,858 |
| 2015 | 124 | 1,707 |
| 2016 | 106 | 1,901 |
| 2017 | 106 | 1,910 |
| 2018 | 105 | 1,904 |
| 2019 | 107 | 1,878 |
| 2020 | 95 | 1,983 |
| 2021 | 117 | 1,752 |
| 2022 | 120 | 1,737 |
| 2023 | 100 | 1,970 |
| 2024 | 91 | 2,109 |
| 2025 | 75 | 2,390 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 2,561 |
| 2012 | 63 | 2,144 |
| 2013 | 65 | 2,077 |
| 2014 | 51 | 2,472 |
| 2015 | 46 | 2,656 |
| 2016 | 73 | 1,980 |
| 2017 | 98 | 1,625 |
| 2018 | 95 | 1,674 |
| 2019 | 104 | 1,597 |
| 2020 | 103 | 1,582 |
| 2021 | 130 | 1,414 |
| 2022 | 116 | 1,543 |
| 2023 | 112 | 1,562 |
| 2024 | 109 | 1,585 |
| 2025 | 88 | 1,814 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 94 | 449 |
| 2012 | 82 | 519 |
| 2013 | 55 | 725 |
| 2014 | 59 | 668 |
| 2015 | 46 | 819 |
| 2016 | 50 | 782 |
| 2017 | 47 | 814 |
| 2018 | 45 | 826 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1,349 |
| 2020 | 28 | 1,164 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1,259 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 25 | 1,288 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,603 |
| 2025 | 15 | 1,892 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Honor

- Honor Blackman, British actress
- Honor Bridget Fell, British scientist and zoologist (1900–1986)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.