Given name & surname · also Portuguese
Honorato
Honorato is a surname from Portuguese, ultimately from Spanish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Honorato comes from Portuguese, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1931. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Honorato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1931
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1945. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1931. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 466 as a first name in 2020; 609 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Honorato’s family of names
Honorato has a related form in Honoré.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Honorato
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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