Honore
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Honore has been given to 252 babies in the U.S. since 1898. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1942, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Honore, 2016
1 in 734,000
Honore over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Honore over time
In 2016, Honore went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Honore?
Honore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 734,000
- 5 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 354,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 508,706 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Honore sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Honores were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Honore was born before 1939 — so the typical Honore is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 24.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 54
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Honore 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1942 (11)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Honore
Honore is not the most common spelling — Lenore is, with 72.2% against Honore's 0.71%.
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 Honore is used
Across 1910–2025, Honore was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
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. Honore has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Honore around the world
Where Honore 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.
- France1908–1961#1,212in 1961
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Honore by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Honore
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Honore
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.