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

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A classic virtue name for girls stretching back to the Pilgrim times, in more recent years, Honor has become one of the <a href="https://nameberry.com/unisex-names">unisex baby names</a> with a near-even gender split. Rarely used on boys before the 2010s, it has nearly doubled in use over the last decade.
 
Honor is quality that is universally admiral and a majority of parents would want their child to know and do what is morally right. Honor therefore fits any gender and it sounds and looks enough like Connor, Valor, or Hector that it feels grounded and wearable.
 
Given to 109 boys and 91 girls in 2024, notable bearers include artist Honor Titus and football player Honor Jackson while playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac had a French variant.

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The name Honor peaked for boys at #1414 in 2021. The name is most popular in HONOR, HONOR, and HONOR. Honor is occasionally used for girls in 2025.

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

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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.

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The name Honor peaked for girls at #1116 in 1897. The name is most popular in HONOR, HONOR, and HONOR. Honor is occasionally used for boys in 2025.

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Year	US rank	Births	Per million
2014	#2,472	51	26.6
2015	#2,656	46	24
2016	#1,980	73	38.5
2017	#1,625	98	52.9
2018	#1,674	95	52.3
2019	#1,597	104	58
2020	#1,582	103	59.7
2021	#1,414	130	74.3
2022	#1,550	115	65.9
2023	#1,569	111	64.9
2024	#1,577	109	63.3
2025	#1,814	88	51.5

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