Honore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin honoratus / honor; means “honor”
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Honore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 152K
- DMDominica1 in 359
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 359 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Honorè in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin honoratus / honor; means “honor.”
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Honore counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #814 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 8K | Honore | 239 |
| RW Rwanda | #391 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Honore | 7 |
| US United States | — | 2,191 | 1 in 152K | 2.4K | Honore | 146 |
| HT Haiti | #193 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Honore | 9 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 2 | Honorè | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 820 | 1 in 7.2K | 820 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 207 | 1 in 359 | 207 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 30 | 1 in 3.8K | 30 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Honore is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Honordtus ‘Honoured’). The name was borne by a sthcent. bishop of Arles and a 6th-cent. bishop of Amiens, both of whom became popular minor saints and contrib¬ uted to the frequency of the name in the Middle Ages. Homolka Czech: nickname for a mild or soft person, from the vocab. word homolka (cone-shaped lump of) cream cheese, a dim. of homole cone (see Homola). Honse see Hans Hont see F'ont
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
from a medieval personal name (Latin Honoratus ‘honored’). The name was borne by a 5thcentury bishop of Arles and a 6th-century bishop of Amiens, both of whom became popular minor saints and contributed to the frequency of the name in the Middle Ages. The surname was taken to Denmark by French Huguenots who migrated there in the 17th century.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
From Latin Honoria, derivative of honor ‘honour’. Honoré ¢ From Late Latin Honoratus ‘honoured’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, bishop of Arles and a 6th-cent. bishop of Amiens, both of whom became popular minor saints and contributed to the frequency of the name in the Middle Ages. Cogns.: Prov.: Hon(n)orat.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
French form of HONORIA, also used occasionally in the English-speaking world.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hector Honoreb. 1905USAmerican racing driver (1905–1983)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2015 | 8K | #2,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 240 | #21,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 230 | #21,545 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 5 | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Honore mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin honoratus / honor; means “honor.” Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Honore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Honore in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled honore.
- Where is Honore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Honore is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 359 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Honore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,191 people named Honore in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
- How common is Honore compared with other names?
- In France, Honore is the 814th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/honoreThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Honore” — the 814th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.