Honor (given name)

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[]

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