Honoré
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From French honoré ‘honored, respected’; expresses esteem
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔnɔʁe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Honoré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 152K
- DMDominica1 in 359
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 359 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Honore in FR France, US United States, HT Haiti and 1 more and Honorè in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From French honoré ‘honored, respected’; expresses esteem. Saint’s day: 16 May.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Honoré counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #814 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 8K | Honore | 239 |
| RW Rwanda | #391 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Honore | 7 |
| US United States | — | 2,191 | 1 in 152K | 2.4K | Honore | 146 |
| HT Haiti | #193 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Honore | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 2 | Honorè | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 820 | 1 in 7.2K | 820 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 207 | 1 in 359 | 207 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 30 | 1 in 3.8K | 30 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Honoré is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, past participle of honorer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Latin Honoratus/ Honoré, de honor « honneur ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, From Latin Honorius, 'honored'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French: from the Late Latin name Honor tus meaning ‘honoured’, borne by various early saints, including Honoratus of Toulouse (3rd century), Honoratus of Arles (d. 429), and Honoratus of Amiens (d. c. 600).
as a word
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of honorar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maître Honoréb. 1250FRFrench illuminator, active ca. 1288–1300
- Bertha Honoré Palmerb. 1849USAmerican art collector (1849-1918)
- Jean Marcel Honoréb. 1920FRCatholic cardinal (1920–2013)
- Tony Honoréb. 1921GBBritish lawyer and jurist (1921–2019)
- Philippe Honoréb. 1941FRFrench cartoonist
- Russel L. Honoréb. 1947USRetired Lieutenant General in the United States Army
- Erik Honoréb. 1966NONorwegian musician, record producer, sound engineer
- Carl Honoréb. 1967CACanadian journalist
- Christophe Honoréb. 1970FRFrench film director, screenwriter and writer (born 1970)
- Mikkel Frølich Honoréb. 1997DKDanish cyclist, born 1997
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 550 | #702 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #332 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Honoré come from?
- From French honoré ‘honored, respected’; expresses esteem. Saint’s day: 16 May. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What are other forms of the name Honoré?
- In the etymology graph, Honneur is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Honoré?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔnɔʁe/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Honoré mean?
- Recorded meaning: From French honoré ‘honored, respected’; expresses esteem.
- In which country does Honoré have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Honoré in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled honore.
- Where is Honoré most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Honoré is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 359 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Honoré?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,191 people named Honoré in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Honoré compared with other names?
- In France, Honoré is the 814th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Honoré?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honor%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Honoré” — the 814th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.