Honor

Where Honor comes from

Shortened from Honoria and Honora; later also interpreted as a virtue name by Puritans.
— Wiktionary's entry for Honor
  • English
Honor through the years
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,136 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #1,094
    9 babies named Honor, its best rank.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Honor hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.