girls:
243 births since 1988
#5473 (4th percentile)
boys:
98 births since 2007
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
341 births since 1988
#7398 (4th percentile)
The name Honour is the #7,398 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 341 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,473 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 243 births since 1988. For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 2007.
Honour first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (1988 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Honour is available in 23 out of the 36 years between 1988 and 2023 (22 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Honour has been given predominantly to girls, with 71.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 53.6% of babies named Honour were girls.
For girls, Honour reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #940) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Honour ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 75.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Honour reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #910) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Honour ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 70.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Honour".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Honour is pronounced as AH-ner, which has 2 syllables.
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