Honor
Honor is a girls' name of Latin origin meaning “dignity, integrity, and high moral worth.” From the Latin honor, meaning esteem and dignity.
how do you pronounce Honor?
ON-er
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what does Honor mean?
The name Honor means “dignity, integrity, and high moral worth.” It comes from the Latin language tradition.
From the Latin honor, meaning esteem and dignity. A virtue name used by the Puritans alongside Faith and Hope, it gained modern visibility when Jessica Alba named her daughter Honor Marie in 2008.
where does the name Honor come from?
The two sources offer different derivations without one clearly outranking the other: Wiktionary says Honor was shortened from Honoria and Honora, and only later reinterpreted as a virtue name by the Puritans, while Wikipedia derives it directly from the word honour, itself from the Latin root honos, honoris, also noting Puritan virtue-name use.
the history of Honor
Wikipedia notes Honor remains in occasional use in England but is extremely rare in the United States, where it has never ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls or boys.
what are the nicknames and variants of Honor?
Variants around the world
who are famous people named Honor?
- Honor Alba (Jessica Alba's daughter)
- Honor Blackman (actress)
what names are similar to Honor?
what names go well with Honor?
Sibling names that share Honor's rhythm and register without echoing it too closely.
Last reviewed April 30, 2026 · Curated by HushName editorial
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