Unisex name · since 1988
Honour
266 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.
- #16,992 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,362 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 266
- born since 1988
- 2010s
- peak decade
Honour currently ranks #10362 among unisex names in America, with 266 babies recorded since 1988.
Honour has 266 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #10362 as of the latest data, more common than 40% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2025.
- #16,992 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,362 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 266 born since 1988
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Honour ranks #16,992 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,362 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 266 born since 1988, peaking in the 2010s.
- #16,992 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,362 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 266
- born since 1988
- 2010s
- peak decade
Honour's 266 recorded births place it above 76.47% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Honour compares
266 42nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Honour's all-time total is 29% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Honour | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 266 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 22 | 21 | 19,840 |
Honour's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Honour splits its recorded history at 2014: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1988 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2016 peak of 22 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Honour popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2025
- Peak year (2016)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 38 years of records
Honour popularity over time - boys
109 total births recorded since 2007 (Honour as boys' name)
Honour by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (117 births, 44% of the file).
2010s was Honour's strongest decade.
117 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Honour births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
- 1990s 26
1990s
26 births
- 2000s 30
2000s
30 births
- 2010s
2010s
117 births
- 2020s
2020s
88 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 117 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Honour's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (117 total births) through the 2020s (88) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Honour: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2016)
Similar record span (~37 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Honour draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.