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How popular is the name Honor?
Births per year, rank history and how many Honors are alive today.
Honor (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1892nd in 2025 and given to 15 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2003, when 105 babies were given the name, the 356th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2011, with 94 babies given the name that year. It has declined since 2003; the 2025 figure is roughly 14% of its peak. Honor is one spelling of a name also recorded as Honour; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Honor you are most likely to meet is around 16 years old. Half of all Honors born in England and Wales are between 14 and 27, and there are at least 2,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Honor - on average, only one in every 137 such rooms contains a Honor.
How many babies are named Honor each year?
Includes all spellings: Honor, Honour. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Honor spelling rank?
Where does the Honour spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Honor most popular?
Honor peaked in 2003, when 114 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Honor?
At least 2,300 people named Honor in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Honor?
Most living Honors are between 14 and 27; the most common age is about 16.
Is Honor becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2003 peak.