Howard


Gender:
Origin: English, German, Norse
2350 famous people named Howard found on Wikipedia.
345107 male, 1677 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 968-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 24-th in year 1920
Used in: English

Meanings

A male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “brave heart.”.

Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old Norse Hávarðr, which means "high guard". A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900-1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960–1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990–2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600.

Proper name, from Old French Huard, from a Germanic source similar to Old High German *Hugihard "heart-brave," or *Hoh-weard, literally "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate Old Norse Haward, and as a surname also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from Old English eowu hierde "ewe herd."

Combine of hug (heart, mind, spirit) and hard (hardy, brave, strong). Combine of ha (high) and varor (guardian).

Famous People: 2350 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Howard Hughes 1905 Aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer
2 Bryce Dallas Howard 1981 American actress
3 Ron Howard 1954 American filmmaker
4 Howard Stern 1954 American radio personality
5 Terrence Howard 1969 American actor
6 Dwight Howard 1985 American basketball player
7 Catherine Howard 1523 Fifth wife of Henry VIII of England
8 Tim Howard 1979 American soccer player
9 Clint Howard 1959 American actor
10 Curly Howard 1903 American comedian as one of the Three Stooges
11 Moe Howard 1897 American actor and comedian
12 Howard Dean 1948 American political activist
13 Howard Schultz 1953 American businessman
14 Russell Howard 1980 British comedian and presenter
15 Paige Howard 1985 Actress
16 Ken Howard 1944 American actor
17 Brittany Howard 1988 American singer
18 Shemp Howard 1895 American comedian and actor
19 Miki Howard 1962 American musician
20 Leslie Howard 1893 Actor
21 Howard Cosell 1918 Sportscaster from the United States
22 Arliss Howard 1954 Actor and director from the United States
23 Desmond Howard 1970 All-American college football player, professional football player, wide receiver, Heisman Trophy winner
24 Howard Stark Comic book character
25 Howard Keel 1919 Actor
26 Howard Zinn 1922 Author and historian
27 Leo Howard 1997 American actor
28 Traylor Howard 1966 Actress
29 Ryan Howard Fictional character in The Office
30 Howard K. Stern 1968 American lawyer
31 Ben Howard 1988 English singer and songwriter
32 Howard Deutch 1950 Film director, television director
33 Rance Howard 1928 American actor
34 Chris Howard 1975 American football player
35 James Newton Howard 1951 American composer
36 Howard Rollins 1950 American stage, film and television actor
37 Howard Wolowitz Fictional character on the television series The Big Bang Theory
38 Howard Shore 1946 Canadian composer
39 Juwan Howard 1973 American professional basketball player
40 Robert E. Howard 1906 American author
41 Howard Jones 1955 English musician, singer and songwriter
42 Todd Howard 1971 American video game designer, director, and producer
43 Howard Morris 1919 Actor, film director
44 Kerry Howard 1982 English actress
45 Howard Graham Buffett 1954 American photographer and philanthropist
46 Howard Donald 1968 English singer and DJ
47 Howard Hesseman 1940 American actor
48 Trevor Howard 1913 English film, stage and television actor
49 Howard Gardner 1943 American developmental psychologist
50 Howard Hawks 1896 American film director, producer and screenwriter
51 Howard Ashman 1950 American playwright and lyricist
52 Howard McNear 1905 Actor
53 Jean Speegle Howard 1927 American actress
54 Jeremy Howard 1981 American actor
55 Howard Kendall 1946 English footballer and manager
56 Howard Webb 1971 English professional football referee
57 Josh Howard 1980 American basketball player
58 Howard Duff 1913 Actor
59 Andrew Howard 1969 Actor
60 Byron Howard 1968 American film director and animator
61 Laura Howard 1977 British actress
62 Howard Charles 1983 British actor
63 Dominic Howard 1977 British musician
64 Howard Baker 1925 American politician
65 Robert L. Howard 1939 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
66 Jordan Howard 1994
67 Howard Hewett 1955 American singer
68 Adina Howard 1974 American R&B singer
69 Howard Schnellenberger 1934 American college football player, college football coach, professional football coach
70 Howard Pyle 1853 American illustrator and author
71 Kyle Howard 1978 American actor
72 Howard Finkel 1950 Professional wrestling ring announcer
73 Sophie Howard 1983 Glamour model
74 Howard Dully 1948 Recipient of a transorbital lobotomy
75 B Howard 1981 American musician
76 Oliver Otis Howard 1830 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general
77 Ronald Howard 1918 British actor
78 Howard Austen 1929
79 Howard Da Silva 1909 Actor
80 Howard Florey 1898 Australian pathologist
81 O. J. Howard 1994 American football player
82 Edward Lee Howard 1951 CIA officer
83 Vivian Howard 1978 American chef
84 Howard Lutnick 1961 American businessman
85 Howard Lederer 1964 American professional poker player
86 Jennifer Howard 1925 American actress
87 Howard Kaylan 1947 American singer
88 Howard Kurtz 1953 American journalist
89 Howard Buffett 1903 United States Representative from Nebraska
90 Rowland S. Howard 1959 Musician, songwriter
91 Howard Marks 1946 American businessman
92 Kenny Howard 1929 American artist (1929-1992)
93 Howard Goodall 1958 English composer and presenter for television and radio
94 Howard Hodgkin 1932 British artist
95 Susan Howard 1944 American actress
96 Charles S. Howard 1877 American businessman and rachorse owner
97 Howard "Bunny" Colvin Character from The Wire
98 Elston Howard 1929 American baseball player and coach
99 Howard W. Hunter 1907 President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
100 Howard Warren Buffett 1983 American academic
101 Ebenezer Howard 1850 British writer, founder of the garden city movement
102 Frank Howard 1936 American baseball player and coach
103 Howard Thurman 1899 American writer
104 Howard Mason 1959 American drug trafficker
105 Elizabeth Jane Howard 1923 Writer
106 Howard E. Wasdin 1961 Author
107 Howard S. Becker 1928 American sociologist
108 Howard Scott Warshaw 1957 American game designer and filmmaker
109 Jimmy Howard 1984 American ice hockey goaltender
110 Howard Siler 1945 American bobsledder
111 Howard Wilkinson 1943 Footballer
112 Howard Caine 1926 American actor
113 Howard Leese 1951 American guitarist, music producer, and musical director
114 Howard Unruh 1921 American murderer
115 Clark Howard 1955 Syndicated Talk radio host, Consumer Advocate, & author
116 Howard Gordon 1961 American television writer and producer
117 Howard Stringer 1942 British businessman
118 Duane Howard 1963
119 Sidney Howard 1891 American writer
120 Howard Jacobson 1942 British author and journalist
121 Kirsty Howard 1995 British charity worker
122 Howard Hallis 1971 American artist
123 Kevyn Major Howard Canadian actor
124 Geese Howard 1953 Fictional character
125 Howard W. Jones 1910 American physician
126 Barry Howard 1937 British actor
127 Howard Devoto 1952 English singer-songwriter
128 Sherman Howard 1949 American actor
129 Howard Fast 1914 Novelist
130 Margo Howard 1940 American advice columnist
131 Howard Metzenbaum 1917 American politician
132 Howard K. Smith 1914 American news anchor
133 Howard Beale
134 Howard Lorber 1948 American businessman
135 Howard H. Aiken 1900 Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
136 Howard R. Hughes, Sr. 1869 American businessman
137 Harlan Howard 1927 American songwriter
138 Michael Griffith
139 Howard Weitzman 1940 American entertainment lawyer
140 Howard Bloom 1943 American publicist and author
141 Howard Carter 1961 Professional basketball player
142 Howard T. Odum 1924 American ecologist
143 Howard Atwood Kelly 1858 American academic and gynecologist
144 Melissa Howard 1977 American actress
145 Howard Benson 1956 American record producer
146 Jan Howard 1930 American musician, actress
147 Matt Howard 1989 American basketball player
148 Howard Sprague
149 Howard Johnson 1960 American baseball player
150 Howard Lincoln 1940 American baseball executive
151 Howard Fineman 1948 American writer
152 Howard Chaykin 1950 American comic book artist and writer
153 Howard Thurston 1869 American magician
154 Howard Chandler Christy 1873 American artist
155 Frances Howard 1903 American actress
156 Alan Howard 1963 British hedge fund manager
157 Michael Howard 1922 English military historian
158 Mark Howard Sports journalist
159 Howard Hanson 1896 American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist
160 Howard Hill 1899 American archer
161 Linda Howard 1950 American writer
162 Howard Lyman 1938 American activist
163 Howard Rheingold 1947 American journalist
164 Howard Winklevoss 1943 American actuary
165 Lord Edmund Howard 1478 English lord
166 Howard Davies 1951 British economist, businessman
167 Howard Staunton 1810 English chess master and Shakespearean scholar
168 Howard Finster 1916 American artist
169 Glenn Howard 1962 Curler
170 John Howard 1912 British Army officer
171 Christian Howard 1984
172 Howard Greenfield 1936 American songwriter and lyricist
173 Howard Bragman 1956 American writer
174 Howard Edward Butt Sr. 1895 American philanthropist
175 Danny Howard 1987 British dance music DJ, producer, and BBC Radio 1 host
176 Howard Morton 1925 American actor
177 Howard Sims 1918 American entertainer
178 Howard Brown 1966 British singer
179 Howard McGillin 1953 American actor
180 Howard Gayle 1958 English footballer
181 Jaye Howard 1988 American football player, defensive lineman
182 Howard Blake 1938 Composer
183 Rock Howard
184 Howard Bingham 1939 American photographer and businessman
185 Howard Storm 1946 American writer
186 James H. Howard 1913 American fighter pilot in World War II
187 Vernon Howard 1918 American writer
188 Howard E. Koch 1901 American screenwriter
189 Tanedra Howard 1980 American actress
190 Howard Milstein 1951 Real estate developer
191 Howard Eskin 1952 American sportscaster
192 Howard Deering Johnson 1897 Entrepreneur, restaurant and hotel industry executive
193 Luke Howard 1772 British manufacturing chemist
194 Bobbie Howard 1977 American football player
195 Howard Eisley 1972 American basketball player
196 Howard Coble 1931 American politician
197 Howard Klein American television producer
198 Howard Nathan 1972 American basketball player
199 Howard Cassady 1934 American football player
200 Steve Howard 1976 Football (soccer) player