Honora is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Honora in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Honora in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Honora by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Honora ranks at #5,516. That means there are 5,515 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Honora.
Honora is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2001, where the name Honora was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Honora and were born in the USA in 2001, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Honora even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1881, it ranked on position 554 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Honora was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Honora has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 10 times and thus landed on position 8,408 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 10 girls with the name Honora, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The first name Honora is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 202 Americans in total bear this name. And these 202 women are located in only four states: Massachusetts, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Honora and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Honora in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 83,450 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Honora.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Honora is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Honora and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Honora, you can simply say:
Hat
Orange
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Honora
Honora
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
O
N
O
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
O
N
O
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Honora sounds like this:
