Honor

English word and virtue name

"honor"

Honor Origin and Meaning

The name Honor is a girl's name meaning "honor".

Honor is a somewhat more straight-laced virtue name than Hope or Grace, placing a high standard on any girl carrying it, but it's a goal worth setting. By choosing Honor for her daughter, Jessica Alba brought it very much into the modern world.

Honor has become popular as a nonbinary name, given to nearly equal numbers of girls and boys but not ranking in the Top 1000 for either.

Probably the best known bearer is British actress Honor Blackman, remembered for her roles in The Avengers and the James Bond Goldfinger.

The more feminine Honora is also pretty and a fresh route to Nora. In another variation, Honoria Blake is a character in the Dickens novel Bleak House, Honoria Brady is the hero's cousin in the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by W. M. Thackeray and Honoria Glossop, a character in the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

Honor Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1500 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Honor

• 1500 Nameberry 2025
• 980 Unique 2023
• 230 Unisex 2022
• 835 England 2018

20 Names Similar to Honor

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• Delta
• Prim
• Tuesday
• Jasper
• Starla
• Valentine
• Bindi
• Sukie
• Liberty
• Moxie
• Monet
• Iggy
• Mercy
• Jubilee
• Holiday
• Pansy
• Mauve
• Ziggy
• Glory

Famous People Named Honor

• Honor Fraser English model
• Honor Frost (1917 2010), English archaeologist
• Honor Moore American poet
• Honor Blackman English actress
• Honor Mary Crowley Irish politician
• Honor Bridget Fell English zoologist
• Honor Maria Ford Smith, Jamaican actress
• Honor Lilbush Wingfield Tracy English novelist
• Honor Victoria Wellesley daughter of Princess Antonia of Prussia and the Duke of Wellesley
• Honor Marie Warren (b. 2008) daughter of actors Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
• Honor Florence Crosby Hunkin (b. 2018) daughter of English television presenter, model and fashion journalist Louise Roe
• Gene Honor Getty (b. 2017) daughter of Joseph and Sabine Getty
• Honor Swinton Byrne (b.1997) daughter of actress Tilda Swinton and John Byrne, twin of Xavier Swinton Byrne

The name Honor in Pop Culture

• Honor Stephanie Alexander Harrington, main character in David Weber's Honorverse series
• Honor Huntzberger character on TV's "Gilmore Girls"
• Honor Blake character in J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
• Honor Bright main character in Tracy Chevalier's "The Last Runaway"
• Honor main character in Allegra Goodman's "The Other Side of The Island"
• Honor character in television series "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams"
• Honor Guest DC character known as “The Silencer“

International Variations of the name Honor

• Honorina Filipino
• Honorata Italian
• Honore French
• Onóra Irish Gaelic
• Honora Italian