Honor — #2095 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Honor

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,053 babies named Honor between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Honor currently holds the #2095 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 134 babies received it in a single year. Honor is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,385 additional births since 1952.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Honor performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,111 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Honor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 196 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Honor in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Honor in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,053 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.