Thoughts on baby name Honor.

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What do you guys think of the name Honor? I've always liked it but don't know if it's actually a good/nice name or not?! Definitely over thinking it

Your feedback would be great x

Hebe is awful. Hebe jeebies!

I love it. Ticks all the boxes for me.

Honoria to rhyme with gonorrhoea?

Love it. Don’t know any

I like Hester too

I'm very very biased for outing reasons I won't go into here, let's just say i think it's a beautiful name for a little girl and I've never regretted my choice

It's usually spelt ... for the name ... without the 'u' , even in the UK. My understanding is that it originally became popular as one of the 'virtue' names popular amongst Puritans in the 1600s.

IIRC, I think Tilda Swinton has a daughter called Honor. There's also a young actress called Honor Kneafsey who was in 'Our Zoo' a few years back. I really like the fact it's still considered an unusual name, but most people seem to like it and don't think it's outrageous or ridiculous.

Yes it’s traditionally spelt Honor on the UK, being an old name which was used long before the standardisation of the “honour” spelling of the vocabulary word c1800.

*in the UK

Interesting facts about this name

I love Hester too

This has really swung me to loving the name.

So is Hebe actually pronounced hee-bee? Never heard of it!

My daughter inherited Honor as her middle name from her grandmother. I loved the name from the moment I met my mother-in-law and we specifically chose a first name to go with it for our daughter.

I know a Hebe (pronounced Hee-bee).

Honor is lovely. Don't spell it a different way.

Hester is also a really nice name.

I love it. If we had had a girl, she was going to be called Honor.

I really like it and it was on our list but a few people misheard it as Ana (of Frozen fame) which put me off, rightly or wrongly!

Lovely, but depends on the surname.
Honor Hill, Honor Dick or Honour Watt might be too much

MikeUniformMike hahaha luckily our surname isn't Dick
But agree it's a name that won't suit every surname. Our surname has 3 Ls in it so at least honor/honour isn't more Ls!

The feedback has been really positive really happy x

Quite often an "a" is added to soften, dont know if you'd thought of that?
Honora

@lilgreen sorry thought it was only us that ignore h's

I don’t as a rule but it’s just the way the word is pronounced even when it’s not a name. E.G To love , honour and obey is pronounced without the ‘h’.

I’ve only ever known two Honors and they’ve both been wonderful. One was my class TA when I was five or six and the other was my sister’s friend in sixth form. Beautiful name with lovely connotations for me, absolutely go for it!

It’s a gorgeous, graceful name.

Love.

Honor, Hester and Hebe have all been on our list.

As have Hestia, Eurus and Eugenie, which have the same feel, I think xxx

FFS. Ignore the kisses, texting DM at the same time

I like Honor but I prefer Hope.

I love it. Timeless and beautiful.