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Gender: M Popularity: this week. Origin of Howard: German Meaning of Howard: "brave heart" Howard's Popularity in 2012: #988
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Howard, once hugely popular -- in the Top 50 from the 1870s to early 1950s -- is now a real dad-grandad name, with no sign of a revival in sight. To honor a relative, you might just drop the first syllable and call him Ward.

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Famous People Named Howard

Howard Stern, American radio personality
Howard K. Stern, American attorney
Howard Dean, American politician and medical doctor
Howard Cosell, sports broadcaster
Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer and film mogul
Howard Goodall, English musicologist
Howard Judd, American physician and medical researcher
Howard Phillips "H.P." Lovecraft, American writer
Howard "Howie" Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, and TV host

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Howard Wolowitz, character on US sitcom The Big Bang Theory

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Howie, Ward

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Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Howard: German Meaning of Howard: "brave heart"
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Howard? For a girl? In the woolly new world of baby naming, stranger things have happened. One or two, anyway.

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Howard is author Anne Rice's real name.

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