Honora

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Honora: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Honora: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 22 years, its highest recorded position is #251, and it stood at #5,927 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
21times a registrar ranked it
62years from first to last
#251highest recorded position

What stands out in Honora's record

Absent from every published list for 22 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2010–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2010	#5707
2012	#5876
2017	#5765
2020	#4535
2021	#4634
2023	#3598
2024	#4192
2025	#5927

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 13 of the 24 years from 1964 to 1987.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1964–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #300 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–1987
Highest recorded position: #251 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1965 (recorded 1964–1987).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Honora appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 13 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 63 births with the name.

Honora across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Honora's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#300 (1964)	#251 (1965)	#488 (1987)	13 of 24	63 (1964–1987)	9 (1969)
England and Wales · Girls	#5707 (2010)	#3598 (2023)	#5927 (2025)	8 of 16	31 (2010–2025)	6 (2023)

Honora by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Honora in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	33	5 of 10	7
1970s	19	5 of 10	4
1980s	11	3 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Republic of Ireland has recorded the most births with →

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #251 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Honora's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#488	3	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#459	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#522	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#455	4	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	6	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	9	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#276	7	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	8	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Honora is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Honora, between 1964 and 2025, in 21 of those 62 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1964–1987	13	#251 in 1965
England and Wales	2010–2025	8	#3598 in 2023

Its high point came 58 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1965) than in England and Wales (2023).

No registrar recorded it for 22 years after 1987; it appears again in 2010.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1964 and 2025, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #251, first reached in 1965.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1969.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 22 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2010, and 46 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

5decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 5 decades →
4 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
12separate stretches the record falls into10 or more separate stretches →
22 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period20 or more years missing →
#5,927position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
46 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 41 years or more →
9births registered in its largest year, 1969Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gediminas · #250, 21y
Huxley · #250, 25y
Katie-Louise · #253, 21y
Kevan · #249, 20y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Ray · #251, 40y
Sabina · #251, 61y
Angelo · #250, 32y
Breeda · #252, 19y

Honora was ranked #251 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1965. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cynthia#251
Ethel#251
Eva#251
Jill#251
Alma#262
Amy#262
Anastatia#262
Arlene#262

What is known about Honora

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 2 official registrars, 1964–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1964 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #251 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Honora

Honora at a glance

What stands out in Honora's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Honora across 2 official records

Honora by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Popularity data

Where Honora is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Honora

What is known about Honora

Honora at a glance

What stands out in Honora's record

Honora across 2 official records

Honora by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Honora