How Many People Are Named Honor?
people named Honor are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 82,258 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,604 babies named Honor in Social Security records from 1888 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
247 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of HONOUR, using the American spelling.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Honor in English. Counting Honor and these spellings together, about 4,527 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Honor, 64.8% were girls and 35.2% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Honor fell from 100% in the 1920s to 47.6% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Honor alive today is about 15 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 16 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Honor first appears in the records in 1888 and was given most often in 2021, to 247 babies. In 2025, 163 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1888 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Honor has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,116, in 1897. In 2025 it ranked #2,390. Among boys, its best rank was #1,414, in 2021.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,390 | #1,814 |
| Best rank | #1,116 (1897) | #1,414 (2021) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,865 in the 2010s | #2,048 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Honor alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Honor were born in California than in any other state: about 367 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Honor was given 3.1 times as often in Georgia, 2.1 times in Pennsylvania and 2 times in North Carolina.
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