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How popular is the name Honour?
Births per year, rank history and how many Honours are alive today.
Honour (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Honor in England and Wales, ranked 3705th in 2025 and given to 6 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2010, when 15 babies were given the name, the 1815th most popular that year. It has declined since 2010; the 2025 figure is roughly 40% of its peak. Common short forms of Honour include Honor.
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 Honour each year?
Includes all spellings: Honour, Honor. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Honour spelling rank?
Where does the Honor 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 Honour most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Honor, peaked in 2003, when 114 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The Honour spelling itself peaked in 2010, with 15 babies.
How many people are called Honour?
At least 2,300 people named Honour in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Honour?
Most living Honours are between 14 and 27; the most common age is about 16.
Is Honour becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2003 peak.