Honore — unisex name

What the Data Says About Honore

The Social Security Administration has registered 225 babies named Honore between 1898 and 2016, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Honore currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1942, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Honore is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Honore performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Honore shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Honore in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Honore 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 225 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.