Honour — #7725 US unisex name
257 babies named Honour in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2016. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to girls today.
46% of everyone ever named Honour was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Honour in 2016 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Honour
The Social Security Administration has registered 257 babies named Honour between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Honour currently holds the #7725 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Honour is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 109 additional births since 2007.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Honour performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 117 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Honour shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Honour 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 257 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.
Honour at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Honour popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1988
- Peak year (2016)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
Currently ranks #7725 among girls.
257 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2016 with 22 births in a single year.
Honour popularity over time — boys
109 total births recorded since 2007 (Honour as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Honour accounts for 30% of total recorded use across both genders.
Honour by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 117 births that decade — 46% of Honour's all-time total
Honour decade highlights
- Peak decade 117 births
- Runner-up 79 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Honour's strongest decade
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.