Honor
Honor is a baby name of Latin origin, meaning Honesty and high respect.
What Honor means
Honesty and high respect.
Honor sits at 5 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Honor comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Honor is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Honor?
Honor is not in the current top 100 baby names we track. In practice that means a child called Honor is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Honor
Honor spans Noble and faith, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Honor
These share Honor's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Adil — Just and fair.
- Fidelis — Faithful.
- Grace — Grace, elegance, divine favor.
- Amadeus — Lover of God.
- Arabella — Yielding to prayer; beautiful.
- Augustine — Great and venerable.
- Benedict — Blessed.
- Bennett — Blessed.
- Cecilia — Patroness of music.
- Celeste — Heavenly.
- Clement — Merciful and mild.
- Constance — Steadfast and constant.