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Honour

#10,406 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

English word name: honour

Honour has been given to 375 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #10,406 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.

Babies named Honour, 2025

1 in 368,000

Honour over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Honour over time

In 2025, Honour went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19882025

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.

Honour: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: honour

English

What Honour means

Honour is documented as an English vocabulary word adopted as a personal name. Its immediate reference is the word honour; the cited entry discusses the word history separately from its use as a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Honour is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 266 girls were recorded with the name Honour between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,864 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,346 in 2020 to #10,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,157 in 2015 to #10,406 in 2025.

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Honour between 2007 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,097 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Honour?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,406
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Honour 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Honour. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Honours were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Honour was born before 2016 — so the typical Honour is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
266
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Honour 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
−2,671
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,060
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,249
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
40.9%
Peak was 2016 (22)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,864
2016

Spellings of Honour

Honour is not the most common spelling — Honor is, with 39.1% against Honour's 3.3%.

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.

Honour around the world

Where Honour 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2013
    #816
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2008–2010
    #2,538
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Honour by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,060
Best rank ever
#5,864
2016
Peak year
2016
22 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
266
Count in 2025
9

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,097
2022
Peak year
2022
19 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Honour

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

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Sibling names for Honour

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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