Honor

Honor is a primarily feminine given name derived from the word "honor", taken from a Latin root word honos, honoris. It was a virtue name in use by the Puritans. It is still in occasional use in England, but is an extremely rare name in the United States, where it has never ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls or boys.

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C. 1200, onur, "glory, renown, fame earned," from Anglo-French honour, Old French onor, honor "honor, dignity, distinction, position; victory, triumph" (Modern French honneur), from Latin honorem (nominative honos, the form used by Cicero, but later honor) "honor, dignity, office, reputation," of unknown origin. In Middle English, it also could mean "splendor, beauty; excellence." Until 17c., honour and honor were equally frequent; the former now preferred in England, the latter in U.S. by influence of Noah Webster. Meaning "feminine purity, a woman's chastity" first attested late 14c. Honor roll in the scholastic sense attested by 1872. The initial h in honest, honor, etc., is merely etymological, the sound having already disappeared when the word came into ME use. [Century Dictionary] It was a Latinate correction that began to be made in early Old French. From c. 1300 as "action of honoring or paying respect to; act or gesture displaying reverence or esteem; state or condition inspiring respect; nobleness of character or manners; high station or rank; a mark of respect or esteem; a source of glory, a cause of good reputation." Meaning "one's personal title to high respect or esteem" is from 1540s.

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Honour.

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Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Honor Blackman	1925	English actress
2	Honor Carter	1982	New Zealand hockey player
3	Honor Fraser	1974	Model, art gallery owner
4	Honor Titus	1989	American musician
5	Honor killing of Fadime Şahindal	1975	Swedish murder victim
6	Honor killing of Hatun Sürücü	1982	German murder victim
7	Honor Frost	1917	Underwater archaeologist
8	Honor Moore	1945	American writer
9	Honor Fell	1900	British scientist and zoologist
10	Honor Harger	1975	New Zealand artist
11	Honor Guard
12	Honor Tracy	1913	Writer
13	Honor Plantagenet, Viscountess Lisle		Cornish lady
14	Honor Ford-Smith	1951	Jamaican writer and actor
15	Honor Jackson	1948	American football player
16	Honor Crowley	1903	Irish politician
17	Chris Honor	1968
18	Honor Maude	1905	Australian academic
19	Gareth Honor	1981	British rugby league player
20	Honor Balfour	1912	British journalist and Liberal Party politician
21	Honor Funk	1930	German politician
22	Honor Flaherty		Famine victim
23	Honor Brooke
24	Honor Appleton	1879	English artist in black and white
25	Honor Elizabeth Kever