Meaning not yet researched.
Honor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,414 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,414 in 2021; #1,814 in 2025. About 54% of babies named Honor in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,814 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,414.
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Honor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,414 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 130 (2021).
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Honor, making it the 1,814th most common boys’ name of the year, down 229 places from #1,585 in 2024. That is 21 fewer than the 109 boys named Honor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,414, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 130. For comparison, it was #2,656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 75 US girls were named Honor, making it the 2,390th most common girls’ name of the year, down 281 places from #2,109 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 91 girls named Honor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,116, reached in 1897. The most girls given the name in a single year was 134, in 2013. For comparison, it was #1,707 in 2015 and #4,481 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Honor in 123 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 4,604 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,798 babies named Honor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,028 US boys were named Honor; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 130. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,410 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Honor ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #739 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Glory (5,000 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Honora, Honour and Honore are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in American English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Honora (1,721), Honour (375), Honore (252), Honorio (231), Honorine (35), Honorato (11), Huner (8), Hunar (8).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Honor in the open dataset we use.
Honor is listed as a nickname for Leonore.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #739 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,164 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,386 | #2,386 |
| New York | 6 | #1,639 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,941 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,975 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75 | #2,390 | 88 | #1,814 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,109 | 109 | #1,585 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,970 | 112 | #1,562 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,737 | 116 | #1,543 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,752 | 130 | #1,414 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,983 | 103 | #1,582 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,878 | 104 | #1,597 |
| 2018 | 105 | #1,904 | 95 | #1,674 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,910 | 98 | #1,625 |
| 2016 | 106 | #1,901 | 73 | #1,980 |
| 2015 | 124 | #1,707 | 46 | #2,656 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,858 | 51 | #2,472 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,607 | 65 | #2,077 |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,615 | 63 | #2,144 |
| 2011 | 99 | #1,989 | 48 | #2,561 |
| 2010 | 87 | #2,226 | 44 | #2,754 |
| 2009 | 103 | #2,008 | 36 | #3,185 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,959 | 28 | #3,767 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,149 | 11 | #7,283 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,297 | 15 | #5,622 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,751 | 7 | #9,488 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,932 | 6 | #10,454 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,255 | 9 | #7,475 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,294 | 7 | #8,804 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,355 | 5 | #11,028 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,869 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,938 | — | — |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,790 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,342 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,426 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,050 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,739 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,148 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,615 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,154 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,976 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,664 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,474 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,026 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,650 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,884 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,135 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,744 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,231 | — | — |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,681 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,226 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,917 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,548 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,183 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,309 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,816 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,993 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,024 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,927 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,447 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,091 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,778 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,394 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,264 | 6 | #3,531 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,169 | — | — |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,481 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,909 | — | — |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,355 | — | — |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,233 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,502 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,930 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,634 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,259 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,650 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,895 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,481 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,836 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,295 | — | — |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,161 | — | — |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,314 | — | — |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,206 | — | — |
| 1916 | 9 | #3,131 | — | — |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,018 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1905 | 8 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,199 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).