Honour

surname · Latin script

Meaning: name entry only; meaning not clear in OCR

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɒnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Honour is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States
  • AUAustralia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

name entry only; meaning not clear in OCR.

Sources 1

  • Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Honour, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

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Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Honour is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, mbé, mbéle, mbégo, bago, ba; without honour, maha

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • English: from the vocabulary word honour (via Old French from Latin honor ). The name was popular with the Puritans in the 17th century and has survived to the present day. Variants: Honor esp. U.S.); Honora esp. Ireland; cf. NORA ) .

    as a word

  • In fro, Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur

    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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Honour
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020238#28,312
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202080#28,312
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201622—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202219—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202118—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202217—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202315—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202015—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202414—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201514—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200914—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202313—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Honour mean, and where does it come from?
name entry only; meaning not clear in OCR. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
How do you pronounce Honour?
A machine transcription gives /ɒnə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Honour have the most bearers?
Honour is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Honour”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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