Honor (given name) explained
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
People named Honor
- Honor Grenville (–1566) a Cornish Lady whose domestic life from 1533 to 1540 during the reign of King Henry VIII is exceptionally well-recorded, due to the survival of the Lisle Papers in the National Archives, the state archives of the UK.
- 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 (1920–2024), New Zealand mezzo-soprano opera singer and singing teacher
- Honor Moore (born 1945), American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
- Honor Salmon (née Pitman) (1912-1943), British pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War Two, one of fifteen women pilots who lost their lives flying in the ATA
- 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
People named Honour
Fictional characters
- Honour Chen-Williams, a fictional character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks.
- Honor Harrington, a fictional character from the Honor Harrington book series.
- Honor Huntzberger, a fictional character from the television series Gilmore Girls.
- Honor Klein, a fictional character from the novel A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch.
Notes and References
- http://www.behindthename.com/name/honour Behind the Name
- Web site: Social Security Administration . 2008-06-09 . 2018-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180202070118/https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi . dead .
