Honor (given name)
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Related names | Honour, Honora, Honoria, Annora, Nora |
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 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 (born 1920), former New Zealand mezzo-soprano opera singer and singing teacher
- Honor Moore, American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
- 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
Fictional characters[]
- Honor Harrington, a fictional character from the Honor Harrington book series
- Honor Huntsburger, a fictional character from the television series Gilmore Girls.
Notes[]
Categories:
- Given names
- English feminine given names
- Virtue names