Honor
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About 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 for girls#2390 US
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 for boys#1814 US
A classic virtue name for girls stretching back to the Pilgrim times, in more recent years, Honor has become one of the unisex baby names 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.
Pronounced AH-ner.
As of October 2026, Honor ranked #2390 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1116 in 1897.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,858 | 109 | #2,472 | 51 |
| 2015 | #1,707 | 124 | #2,656 | 46 |
| 2016 | #1,901 | 106 | #1,980 | 73 |
| 2017 | #1,910 | 106 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2018 | #1,903 | 105 | #1,674 | 95 |
| 2019 | #1,878 | 107 | #1,597 | 104 |
| 2020 | #1,995 | 94 | #1,582 | 103 |
| 2021 | #1,752 | 117 | #1,414 | 130 |
| 2022 | #1,735 | 120 | #1,550 | 115 |
| 2023 | #1,966 | 100 | #1,569 | 111 |
| 2024 | #2,102 | 91 | #1,577 | 109 |
| 2025 | #2,390 | 75 | #1,814 | 88 |
World rankings
Honor for boys
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Famous Honors
- Honor FraserGirl
English model
- Honor Frost (1917Girl
2010), English archaeologist
- Honor MooreGirl
American poet
- Honor BlackmanGirl
English actress
- Honor Mary CrowleyGirl
Irish politician
- Honor Bridget FellGirl
English zoologist
- Honor Maria FordGirl
Smith, Jamaican actress
- Honor Lilbush Wingfield TracyGirl
English novelist
- Honor Victoria WellesleyGirl
daughter of Princess Antonia of Prussia and the Duke of Wellesley
- Honor Marie Warren (b. 2008)Girl
daughter of actors Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
- Honor Florence Crosby Hunkin (b. 2018)Girl
daughter of English television presenter, model and fashion journalist Louise Roe
- Gene Honor Getty (b. 2017)Girl
daughter of Joseph and Sabine Getty
- Honor Swinton Byrne (b.1997)Girl
daughter of actress Tilda Swinton and John Byrne, twin of Xavier Swinton Byrne
Honor in pop culture
- Honor Stephanie AlexanderGirl
Harrington, main character in David Weber's Honorverse series
- Honor HuntzbergerGirl
character on TV's "Gilmore Girls"
- Honor BlakeGirl
character in J. M. Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
- Honor BrightGirl
main character in Tracy Chevalier's "The Last Runaway"
- HonorGirl
main character in Allegra Goodman's "The Other Side of The Island"
- HonorGirl
character in television series "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams"
- Honor GuestGirl
DC character known as “The Silencer“