\Honorable H names [girls]

  1. HacinthiaHeart
    • HaideeHeart
      • Origin:

        English
      • Meaning:

        "modest"
      • Description:

        Sounds like a variant of Heidi or Hailey, but Haidee is actually a separate name with a literary history, used in Byron's epic poem Don Juan.
    • HaileyHeart
      • Origin:

        English and Scottish clan name
      • Meaning:

        "Hay's meadow"
      • Description:

        There are no less than ten different variations of Hailey on the current Most Popular list, but this is the spelling that brought it into the Top 10 of 2010, although it has recently dipped a bit in popularity. So, although Hailey has a shiny, unpretentious charm, its mass popularity makes it very much of the moment. Look for the Hailee spelling to rise via Hailee Steinfeld, the young actress Oscar-nominated for her performance in True Grit.
    • HalcyoneHeart
      • HaliaHeart
        • Origin:

          Hawaiian
        • Meaning:

          "remembrance of a loved one"
        • Description:

          Halia is one of Hawaii's top baby names, in the Top 50 for girls in 2021. But it's rare outside its native Hawaii, given to only 57 baby girls in the US last year.
      • HalleyHeart
        • Origin:

          Scottish and English
        • Meaning:

          "hall or woodland clearing"
        • Description:

          The Halley version of this popular name family hit the Top 1000 only once, in 1986, inspired by Halley's Comet, named for astronomer Edmund Halley.
      • HanakoHeart
        • Origin:

          Japanese
        • Meaning:

          "flower child"
        • Description:

          Hanako has a delicate sound and quaint meaning -- but there's a catch. According to widespread urban legend in Japan, Hanako is the name of the ghost of a little girl who haunts school bathrooms, who sometimes answers if you call her name.
      • HanitaHeart
        • Origin:

          Hindi
        • Meaning:

          "divine grace"
        • Description:

          The added h turns Anita alluring and breathy.
      • HannahHeart
        • Origin:

          Hebrew
        • Meaning:

          "grace"
        • Description:

          Hannah is one of the nation's top biblical girls' names—it surpassed Sarah in 1998, and ranks in the Top 50 along with Elizabeth, Abigail, Chloe, and Naomi. Hannah is a name with many sources of appeal: Old Testament roots, soft and gentle sound, and a homey yet aristocratic image.
      • HanneloreHeart
        • Origin:

          German
        • Meaning:

          "grace + god is my light"
        • Description:

          A pretty and substantial German smoosh name, a combination of Hanne and Eleonore. Most popular in Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s. Former German Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Helmut Schmidt both had wives named Hannelore.
      • HarriettHeart
        • HarukoHeart
          • Origin:

            Japanese
          • Meaning:

            "born in spring"
          • Description:

            A traditional possibility for a Japanese or Japanese-American child born in April or May.
        • HassieHeart
          • HavanaHeart
            • Origin:

              Cuban place-name
            • Description:

              Politics aside, the Cuban capital is one of the most rhythmic of place-names. The question is: can politics be put aside?
          • HeatherHeart
            • Origin:

              English botanical name
            • Description:

              This flower name was one of the most popular in her class in the seventies and eighties (in the 1989 movie Heathers, every snobby girl in the high school clique bore that name). Now, though still pretty and evocative of the Scottish moors, it has faded in favor of other purplish blooms, having fallen out of the Top 1000 after having been as high as Number 3 in 1975, when it was given to close to 25,000 girls.
          • HeidiHeart
            • Origin:

              Diminutive of Adelheid; German
            • Meaning:

              "noble, nobility"
            • Description:

              Heidi became known—and popular—via the 1880 eponymous children's classic by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri and, despite decades of American Heidis of all sizes, shapes, and personalities, the name seems permanently tethered to that spunky little girl on the Alpine mountaintop in the book and Shirley Temple movie.
          • HelenHeart
            • Origin:

              Greek
            • Meaning:

              "torch; shining light"
            • Description:

              Helen is a name that has connoted beauty since ancient times – Helen of Troy was the the mythological "face that launched a thousand ships," over whom the ten-year Trojan War was fought.
          • HennaHeart
            • Origin:

              Color name, Finnish feminization of Henry, English from German
            • Meaning:

              "estate ruler"
            • Description:

              Reddish dye that sounds as if it could be a real name — of the outdated, Old World, Yetta-Hedda variety.
          • HenriettaHeart
            • Origin:

              Feminine variation of Henry
            • Meaning:

              "estate ruler"
            • Description:

              Despite a return to such feminizations of male names as Josephine, Clementine, and Theodora, starchy Henrietta has not made it into that group. Still, if you look hard enough, you'll see that Henrietta has the same vintage charm.
          • HermioneHeart
            • Origin:

              Greek, feminine version of Hermes, "messenger, earthly"
            • Meaning:

              "messenger, earthly"
            • Description:

              Hermione's costarring role in Harry Potter has made this previously ignored, once stodgy name suddenly viable. Hermione could really take off once today's children start having kids of their own.