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Honor

Unisex name · Current

Living in the US
~4,200 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#2,387 among girls
Births in 2025
163 4,604 since 1880
Typical age
10 years, median

Honor popularity over time

Honor rank by birth year, 1888–2025Honor ranked #1,136 in 1888 and #2,387 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #1,094, in 1897.#1,000#10,000#2,387best #1,094 in 189718901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1888–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

More children were named Honor in 2021 than in any other year — 247 of them. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1888. In 2025 it ranked #2,387 with 163 births.

It slipped 288 places against the previous year.

Babies named Honor per yearPeaks at 247 births in 2021.247 in 2021018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Honor?

About 4,200 people named Honor are alive in the United States today. That is out of 4,604 recorded births since 1880. The split is about 2,700 women and 1,500 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Honor?

The typical living Honor is 10 years old. Most living bearers were born in the 2010s. By the site’s era rules that makes Honor a current name.

Your Honor

Ages of living people named HonorHalf of living Honors are older than 10 and half younger.median 10020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Honor is most common

Relative to births, Georgia carries 2.1× the national share of Honors. North Carolina and Pennsylvania follow.

Where Honor is used more than average3 states use the name Honor more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 1.4× the national ratePANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: 1.5× the national rateNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: 2.1× the national rateGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Honor is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Georgia 121 2.1×
North Carolina 84 1.5×
Pennsylvania 85 1.4×

Is Honor a boy's or a girl's name?

68% girls32% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Honor is genuinely unisex: over the last decade the split is close to even. Across the whole record, 68.0% of births under the name were girls. The dominant sex is not the same at the end of the record as at the start.

Honor in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Honor ranked #1,892 in 2025 on 15 births. That is 46% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Honor comes from

Shortened from Honoria and Honora; later also interpreted as a virtue name by Puritans.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Honor

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Honor Blackman British actress 1925–2020 45
Honor Frost Underwater archaeologist 1917–2010 11
Honor Fell British scientist and zoologist 1900–1986 9
Photo credits (3)

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

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