Given name
Honorius
“conferring honour”
Honorius is a masculine given name from Late Latin, meaning “conferring honour.”
Meaning & origin
Honorius’s family of names
In English usage, Honorius has a feminine form in Honora. In English usage, Honorius has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form HONORIO. Honorius has a feminine form in Honoria.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Honorius has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
11 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Honorequivalent
- Honorafeminine form · English
- Honorioderivative · Spanish, Galician
- Honoriafeminine form
- OnorioItalian
- HonoriuszPolish
- ⲟⲛⲟⲣⲓⲟⲥborrowing · Coptic
- Ynyrequivalent
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People named Honorius
- Pope Honorius Ipope585–638
- Pope Honorius IIIhead of the Catholic Church from 1216 to 12271148–1227
- Pope Honorius IIPope from 1124 to 11301100–1130
- Pope Honorius IVpope of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 12871210–1287
- Honorius of Canterburymember of the Gregorian mission to the Anglo-Saxons and Archbishop of Canterbury550–653
- Honorius AugustodunensisGerman theologian1080–1154
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