Honora
About Honora
Honora and Honoria are two ways of softening the severity of Honor, while retaining its righteous meaning. They were predominant until the Reformation, when the Puritans adopted the abstract virtue names, and were introduced to Britain by the Normans.
Honoria Blake is a character in the Dickens novel Bleak House.
The Irish form of the name is Onora. A variant spelling is Honorah.
Pronounced huh-NOR-uh.
As of October 2026, Honora ranked #7263 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #601 in 1881.
Editor's take: The name Honora is a girl's name of Italian, Latin origin meaning "woman of honor".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | #4,926 | 27 | 15.9 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,800 | 28 | 17.3 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Honora on lists
Famous Honoras
- Honora "Nano" Nagle
Irish nun and eduactor
- Honora Sneyd
English feminist author and educator
- Honora Burke
Irish noblewoman
Honora in pop culture
- Honora Parker
character in 1994 film "Heavenly Creatures"