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Honor

#2,390 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Variant of Honour

Honor has been given to 4,604 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #2,390 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 134 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.

Babies named Honor, 2025

1 in 44,200

Honor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Honor over time

In 2025, Honor went to 46% girls and 54% boys.

18882025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Honor: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Honour

English

What Honor means

Honor is a variant of Honour.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Honor (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Honor is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Honour and Honoria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,129 girls were recorded with the name Honor between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 134 in 2012; its best national rank was #1,116 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,983 in 2020 to #2,390 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,707 in 2015 to #2,390 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,475 boys were recorded with the name Honor between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 130 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,414 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,582 in 2020 to #1,814 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,655 in 2015 to #1,814 in 2025.

How common is Honor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,390
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Honor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Honors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Honor was born before 2011 — so the typical Honor is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (1,111).

Is Honor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−281
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−407
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−683
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.0%
Peak was 2012 (134)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,116
1897

Spellings of Honor

Honor is not the most common spelling — Noor is, with 29.5% against Honor's 11.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Honor is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Honor was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 18,251 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 in 50,000).

217 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 5,882
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 14,286
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 20,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 20,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Honor is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Honor was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 19,153 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

110 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 10,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 11,111
  3. 3Ohio1 in 11,111
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 14,286
  6. 6California1 in 20,000
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Honor around the world

Where Honor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,892
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2003–2014
    #314
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    1964–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2009–2015
    #7,117
    in 2015
  • Canada
    1997–2018
    #1,987
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1960–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Honor

People whose public names include Honor, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Honor in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Honor. Linked forms have their own page here.

GloryHonoraHonourHonoriaHonorioHonoratoHonorineHonoréHonoratHonóriaHonórioHonorataHonorinaHonoriusHonoretta

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Honor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 407
Best rank ever
#1,116
1897
Peak year
2012
134 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,129
Count in 2025
75

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,814
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 232
Best rank ever
#1,414
2021
Peak year
2021
130 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,475
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Honor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HoneyHonoraHonestyElenorElanorHonestiConnorLeonorHonestHonourElnorElynorElinorHongEleonorEllanorEllenorEllinorLenorHonoreElleanorHonestiiLeanorHonoria

Names with a curve like Honor

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Honor, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MillyKlaraCosetteVivianneJudeElaAdaliaRaleighIsadoraLovelyLeelaChevelle

Sibling names for Honor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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