Honour

Where Honour comes from

The dictionaries list Honour as a given name — a female given name from English, a less common spelling of Honor — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
Along the way
  1. 1988
    First appearance
    #11,798 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #5,796
    22 babies named Honour — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #9,341.
  4. 2023
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, a less common spelling of Honor.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Honour 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.