Honor (given name)
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]
| Other names | |
|---|---|
| Related names | Honour, Honora, Honoria, Annora, Nora |
Variants
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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.