Given name & surname
Honorio
Honorio is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish and Galician.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Galician usage, Honorio developed from Honorius.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1940. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Honorio through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 231
- 231 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,170 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,170 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,722 as a first name in 2020; 192 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.
Honorio’s family of names
In Galician usage, Honorio developed from the Latin form Honorius. In Esperanto usage, Honorio has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Honoriusz. In Spanish usage, Honorio has a conventional equivalent in the English form Honorius.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Honorio has relatives in 3 languages.
2 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Honorio
- Honorio PueyrredónArgentine politician and academic (1876-1945)
- Honorio DelgadoPeruvian psychiatrist1892–1969
- Honorio MachadoVenezuelan racing cyclistborn 1982
- Honorio Rúacyclistborn 1934
- Honorio SiccardiArgentinian composer1897–1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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