Honor (given name)

Honor
Other names
Related names	Honour, Honora, Honoria, Annora, Nora

Last updated October 23, 2025

Honor is a primarily feminine given name derived from the word "honour", taken from a Latin root word honos, honoris. It was a virtue name in use by the Puritans.^[1] It is still in occasional use in England, but is an extremely rare name in the United States, where it has never ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls or boys.^[2]

Variants

Annora (Irish)
Hanora (Irish)
Honora (English), (Irish)
Onorata (Italian)
Honorata (Polish)
Honoré (boy) (French)
Honorée (girl) (French)
Honorina (Filipino)
Honorine (French)
Honour (English)
Nora (English), (Irish)
Onóra (Irish)
Onur (Turkish)
Onur (Azerbaijani)

People named Honor

Honor Grenville (c. 1494–1566) a Cornish Lady whose domestic life from 1533 to 1540 during the reign of King Henry VIII is exceptionally well-recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers in the National Archives, the state archives of the UK.
Honor Blackman (1925–2020), English actress
Honor Carter (born 1982), field hockey player from New Zealand
Honor Crowley (1903–1966), Irish politician
Honor Fell (1900–1986), English biologist and zoologist
Honor Flaherty (died 1848), Irish Famine victim
Honor Ford-Smith (born 1951), Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet
Honor Fraser (born 1974), Scottish art dealer and former model
Honor Harger (born 1975), curator and artist from New Zealand
Honor Jackson (born 1948), American football player
Honor Kneafsey (born 2004), British actress
Honor McKellar (1920–2024), New Zealand mezzo-soprano opera singer and singing teacher
Honor Moore (born 1945), American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
Honor Salmon (née Pitman) (1912–1943), British pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War Two, one of fifteen women pilots who lost their lives flying in the ATA
Honor Smith (1908–1995), English neurologist
Honor Swinton Byrne (born 1997), Scottish actress
Honor Titus (born 1989), American multi-disciplinary artist and musician
Honor Tracy (1913–1989), English writer
Honor Marie Warren (born 2008), daughter of Jessica Alba
Honor Wyatt (1910–1998), English journalist and radio presenter

People named Honorata

Honorata of Pavia (died 500), Christian saint
Honorata Górna (born 1968), Polish ice dancer
Honorata Kucharska (born 2002), Polish Woman FIDE Master
Honorata Marcińczak (1930–2022), Polish gymnast
Honorata Skarbek (born 1992), Polish professional singer, songwriter and fashion blogger

People named Honour

Honour Gombami (born 1983), Zimbabwean football player

Fictional characters

Honour Chen-Williams, a fictional character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks .
Honor Harrington, a fictional character from the Honor Harrington book series.
Honor Huntzberger, a fictional character from the television series Gilmore Girls .
Honor Klein, a fictional character from the novel A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch.

Notes

↑ Behind the Name
↑ "Social Security Administration". Archived from the original on 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

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[1] Behind the Name

[2] "Social Security Administration". Archived from the original on 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

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