Honora
Honora is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 601st, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191928 births
- Best rank
- #601in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,705people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,705 girls have been named Honora in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 28 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1910s alone account for 12%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Honora | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 108 | |
| 1900s | 78 | |
| 1910s | 202 | |
| 1920s | 175 | |
| 1930s | 147 | |
| 1940s | 172 | |
| 1950s | 125 | |
| 1960s | 86 | |
| 1970s | 46 | |
| 1980s | 56 | |
| 1990s | 33 | |
| 2000s | 114 | |
| 2010s | 197 | |
| 2020s | 94 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Honora was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Honora
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adeliapeak 2017
- Estellapeak 1921
- Alidapeak 1917
- Clarapeak 1918
- Laviniapeak 1921
- Lennapeak 2024
- Minervapeak 1955
- Almirapeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.