Howard

Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old English Hereward, meaning "army guard", and Old Norse Hávarðr, which means "high guard".[1][2] The modern Norwegian equivalent is Håvard. A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600.[3] People with the given name Howard or its variants include:

Howard

Pronunciation	HAO-erd
Gender	Masculine
Origin
Word/name	Old English, Old Norse
Other names
Related names	Howie, Ward

Given name

• Howard Ashman (1950-1991), American lyricist known for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
• Howard Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso
• Howard Burnett (athlete) (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
• Howard J. Burnett (born 1929), American president of Washington & Jefferson College
• Howard Carpendale (born 1946), German singer
• Howard Carter (archaeologist) (1874–1939), English archaeologist and Egyptologist
• Howard Carter (disambiguation), name of several other people
• Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
• Howard Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb
• Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician
• Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer
• Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English singer-songwriter
• Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor
• Howard Goodall (born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter
• Howard Grant (boxer) (born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer
• Howard Hawks (1896–1977), American producer
• Howard Hesseman (born 1940), American actor
• Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
• Howard Johnson (disambiguation), name of several people
• Howard Jones (disambiguation), name of several people
• Howard Judd (1935–2007), American physician and medical researcher
• Howard Keel (1919–2004), singer and actor born Harry Keel
• Howard Kendall, English football player and manager
• Howard Lassoff (1955–2013), American-Israeli basketball player
• Howard Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
• Howard Lesnick (1931-2020), American, Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer (full name Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
• Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
• Howard Marks (1945–2016), teacher, drug smuggler and author
• Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist
• Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of American writer Anne Rice
• Howard Payne (athlete) (1931–1992), English hammer thrower
• Howard Schatz, American fine art photographer
• Howard Shore (born 1946), Canadian composer
• Howard Smothers (born 1973), American football player
• Howard Spira, American gambler who was paid by George Steinbrenner to find dirt on baseball player Dave Winfield
• Howard Staunton (1810–1874), British chess player and Shakespearean scholar
• Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
• Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
• Howard Stidham (born 1954), American football player
• Howard Tayler (born 1968), American cartoonist
• Howard Turner (1897–1976), American football player
• Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
• Howard Wilkinson (born 1943), English football manager
• Howard Wilson (born 1995), American football player
• Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist

Howie

• Howie B (born 1963), Scottish musician and producer Howard Bernstein
• Howie Carr (born 1952), American journalist
• Howie Day (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
• Howie Dorough (born 1973), American musician with Backstreet Boys
• Howie Epstein (1955–2003), American musician
• Howie Gordon (born 1971), Big Brother contestant
• Howie Gordon (later known as Richard Pacheco), American pornographic actor
• Howie Hawkins, American politician and activist
• Howie Long (born 1960), American former football player and actor
• Howie Mandel (born 1955), Canadian comedian and actor, host of the TV show Deal or No Deal
• Howie Meeker (born 1924), Canadian hockey player, TV sports announcer, Member of Parliament
• Howie Morenz (1902–1937), Canadian ice hockey player
• Howie Nave (born 1956), American comedian, radio personality, writer, promoter and movie critic
• Howie Rose (born 1954), American sportscaster
• Howie Severino (born 1961), Filipino broadcast journalist
• Howie Winter (born 1929), American mobster
• Howard Donald (born 1968), British musician with Take That

Fictional characters

• Howard Cunningham (Happy Days character), in the Happy Days TV series
• Howard Hamlin, a fictional character on the AMC television series Better Call Saul
• Howard Huge, a comic strip dog
• Howard Hunter, in the TV series Hill Street Blues, played by James B. Sikking
• Howard Langston, in the 1996 film Jingle All the Way
• Howard McBride, in the animated series The Loud House
• Howard McGreggor, in the TV series Fresh Meat
• Howard Moon, in the TV series The Mighty Boosh, portrayed by Julian Barratt
• Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
• Howard Stark, father of Iron Man Tony Stark
• Howard Wolowitz, a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Simon Helberg.
• Howard the Duck, a comic book character
• Howard Link, a "Crow" and Inspector for the Black Order in the D. Gray Man Anime/Manga
• Howard Marner, a fictional character from Short Circuit
• Howard Silk, main character and agent in the TV series Counterpart (TV series)
• Howard DeVille, in the animated series Rugrats

References

1. "howard". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
2. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press, 1988.
3. "Howard, name meaning and origin". Think Baby Names. Retrieved 2008-02-12.