Honora
huh-NOR-uh
A dignified name from Latin honor, meaning “honour” or “honourable.”
Meaning
Honora comes from Latin honor, “honour,” and is historically used as a feminine given name meaning “honourable” or “of honour.” The excerpts also show it as an English form that became established in the eighteenth century, and as a source for Irish Onora/Norah. Some nineteenth-century books also connect it with related forms like Honorine and Honoria.
Origin
LatinEnglishIrishfeminine
Fun fact
Nineteenth-century writers noted that Honora became fashionable in English society for a time, and that Irish Onora and Norah were often treated as forms of it.