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. 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.
Variants
- Annora
- Hanora
- Honora,
- Onorata
- Honorata
- Honoré
- Honorée
- Honorina
- Honorine
- Honour
- Nora,
- Onóra
- Onur
- Onur
People named Honor
- Honor Grenville 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, English actress
- Honor Carter, field hockey player from New Zealand
- Honor Crowley, Irish politician
- Honor Fell, English biologist and zoologist
- Honor Flaherty, Irish Famine victim
- Honor Ford-Smith, Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet
- Honor Fraser, Scottish art dealer and former model
- Honor Harger, curator and artist from New Zealand
- Honor Jackson, American football player
- Honor Kneafsey, British actress
- Honor McKellar, New Zealand mezzo-soprano opera singer and singing teacher
- Honor Moore, American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays
- Honor Salmon, 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, English neurologist
- Honor Swinton Byrne, Scottish actress
- Honor Titus, American multi-disciplinary artist and musician
- Honor Tracy, English writer
- Honor Marie Warren, daughter of Jessica Alba
- Honor Wyatt, English journalist and radio presenter
People named Honorata
- Honorata of Pavia, Christian saint
- Honorata Górna, Polish ice dancer
- Honorata Kucharska, Polish Woman FIDE Master
- Honorata Marcińczak, Polish gymnast
- Honorata Skarbek, Polish professional singer, songwriter and fashion blogger
People named Honour
- Honour Gombami, Zimbabwean football player
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.
- Honorata, a fictional character from Ryse: Son of Rome video game.