Honor (given name)
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Honor is a primarily feminine given name derived from the word "honour", taken from a Latin root word honos, honoris. It was a virtue name in use by the Puritans.[1] 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.[2]
Variants
- Annora (Irish)
- Hanora (Irish)
- Honora (English), (Irish)
- Onorata (Italian)
- Honorata (Polish)
- Honoré (boy) (French)
- Honorée (girl) (French)
- Honorina (Filipino)
- Honorine (French)
- Honour (English)
- Nora (English), (Irish)
- Onóra (Irish)
- Onur (Turkish)
- Onur (Azerbaijani)
People named Honor
- Honor Blackman (born 1925-2020), English actress
- Honor Crowley (1903-1966), Irish politician
- Honor Fell (1900-1986), English biologist and zoologist
- Honor Ford-Smith (born 1951), Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet
- Honor Fraser (born 1974), Scottish art dealer and former model
- Honor Harger (born 1975), curator and artist from New Zealand
- Honor Jackson (born 1948), American football player
- Honor Tracy (1913-1989), English writer
- Honor Kneafsey (born 2004), British actress
- Honor Marie Warren (born 2008), daughter of Jessica Alba and granddaughter of Michael Warren
Fictional characters
- Honor Harrington, a fictional character from the Honor Harrington book series
- Honor Huntsburger, a fictional character from the television series ‘’Gilmore Girls’’. She is the older sister of Logan Huntsburger, love interest of main character Rory Gilmore.
Notes
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