Honorius
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Honorius is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Latin male given name Honōrius, notably borne by a Roman emperor and several popes.
- NLNetherlands1 in 576K◐
- TZTanzania1 in 1.1M
- CACanada1 in 2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈30 ●
- Sources
- 16 ●
- 1 in 576K ◐
across 1 country
127 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Honori in TZ Tanzania, BE Belgium, PE Peru.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
A transliteration of the Latin male given name Honōrius, notably borne by a Roman emperor and several popes.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | 91 | 47 rec. | — | listed | Honorius | 16 |
| CA Canada | 42 | 42 rec. | — | — | Honorius | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 30 | — | 1 in 576K | 30 | — | — |
| US United States | 10 | 19 rec. | — | — | Honorius | 6 |
| TZ Tanzania | 8 | 3 rec. | — | — | Honori | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 6 rec. | — | — | Honori | 2 |
| PE Peru | 5 | 2 rec. | — | — | Honori | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | 131 | — | — |
| RE Réunion | — | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| VA Vatican City | — | 0 rec. | — | 4 | — | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 1 rec. | — | 1 | — | 4 |
| EC Ecuador | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French13923%
- English12421%
- Indonesian9315%
- German427%
- Dutch396%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 139 | 23% |
| English | 124 | 21% |
| Indonesian | 93 | 15% |
| German | 42 | 7% |
| Dutch | 39 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Honorius is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, from Latin honor 'honor'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latin, A Roman Emperor, Honorius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
- Honoriusb. 550ITmember of the Gregorian mission to the Anglo-Saxons and Archbishop of Canterbury
- Honorius Ib. 585ITpope
- Honorius IIb. 1010ITItalian bishop, antipope 1061–1064
- Honorius IIb. 1100ITPope from 1124 to 1130
- Honorius IIIb. 1148IThead of the Catholic Church from 1216 to 1227
- Honorius IVb. 1210ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 1287
- Honorius Krausb. 1773ROAustrian administrator intercalaris (1773-1850)
- Honorius Burgerb. 1788ATAustrian abbot (1788-1878)
- Ernest Cimonb. 1848CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician
- Honorius of KentEnglish Archdeacon of Richmond and canon lawyer
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●
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 30 | #9,133 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| RE Réunion | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) | 1908 | 5 | #105 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #34,383 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 4 | #19 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #643 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 9 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Honorius?
- We estimate roughly 30 people bear Honorius (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Honorius have the most bearers?
- Honorius is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled honorius.
- Where is Honorius most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Honorius is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 576 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- Is Honorius a male or female name?
- Honorius is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Honorius mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Latin male given name Honōrius, notably borne by a Roman emperor and several popes.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Honorius”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.