Recorded 1888–2025 · United States
Honor was most popular in 2021, when 247 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,927 that year. In 2025 it ranked #2,542, with 163 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,604 people named Honor.
Honor first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 123 of the 138 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,604 American births named Honor between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,158 are estimated to be alive today.
163 American babies were named Honor in 2025, ranking #2,542 that year.
Honor is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 212 births a year, against 175 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of +21% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Honor is a unisex name — 68.0% of the 4,604 Americans given it were girls and 32.0% were boys. It changed hands: since 2023 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 50% girls and 50% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,158 Americans named Honor are alive today — 90% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 11 years old, and half are between 5 and 17. That is a narrow band because Honor is a young name — it only became common recently, so almost everyone carrying it is still a child or a young adult.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org