# Honoré (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/honore/  
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 | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 252 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 27 / 225 (89% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 6 | 4,397 |
| 1944 | 5 | 4,837 |
| 1946 | 8 | 3,800 |
| 1947 | 7 | 4,513 |
| 1949 | 5 | 5,560 |
| 1950 | 5 | 5,606 |
| 1951 | 5 | 5,733 |
| 1953 | 6 | 5,289 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,194 |
| 1966 | 8 | 5,024 |
| 1967 | 5 | 7,157 |
| 1968 | 5 | 7,413 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,574 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,004 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,214 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 6 | 3,674 |
| 1920 | 11 | 2,670 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,608 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,535 |

## People named Honoré

- Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
- Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)
- Honoré Daumier, French artist (1808–1879)
- Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (1568-1625)
- Honoré Traoré, Burkinabé soldier
- Honoré Charles Reille, French general (1774–1860)
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, politician and playwright (1839-1923)
- Honoré Jacquinot, French surgeon and zoologist
- Honoré Mercier, Canadian politician (1840-1894)
- Honoré Fabri, French Jesuit, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and physicist (1607-1688)
- Honoré Flaugergues, French astronomer and magistrate (1755–1830)
- Honoré Barthélémy, French racing cyclist (1891–1964)

## 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.