{"id":7231,"date":"2008-06-18T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/06\/18\/baby-name-to-discuss-honor\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:21:00","slug":"baby-name-to-discuss-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2008\/06\/18\/baby-name-to-discuss-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Name to Discuss: Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren had their baby girl this week and named her Honor Marie. During my last pregnancy, I came upon the name Honor in a novel and lovvvvvvvved it. I immediately added it to my girl-name list and considered it a strong candidate: I love virtue names, and I love the way the name Honor looks.<\/p>\n

Then I said it out loud to Paul, and I realized I didn’t like the way it sounded out loud. Onner. And then within about 5 minutes we’d made allllll the jokes: “Honor, thy father and mother,” “Love Honor, and obey,” “Defend your Honor,” “Medal of Honor,” “Code of Honor,” “Honor system,” and OMG ETC. And I realized that Honor could not be on our list, just as the beautiful name Hope can never be a serious contender for our family because we WOULD NOT STOP making “jokes” (quotes indicate non-funniness of such jokes) even when NO ONE, not even US, thought they were funny. We cannot stop.<\/p>\n

My mom is the opposite. She doesn’t like virtue names and she doesn’t like the way the name Honor looks, but she DOES like it said outloud: “Like Connor, without the C,” she said. She also pointed out that it’s a great name for people who like names such as Anna and Andrea pronounced with more of an O-as-in-octopus sound instead of the A-as-in-apple sound more typical in the U.S.<\/p>\n

And my friend Mairzy<\/a> says: “It’s still a little out in left field. But it’s a good left field: the sound is similar to Tori and Nora, and the meaning is faultless. Its drawbacks are that it’s a bit pretentious (almost impossible not to intone the name in an impressive bass voice) and doesn’t have any good nicknames. Still, when I read that Jessica Alba had used the name for her daughter, my first thought was, ‘What a good name!’ So I guess that’s my final verdict.”<\/p>\n

I’m interested to know what YOU think of the name Honor. I’ll put a poll over to the right. [Poll closed; see below.]<\/p>\n

[Poll results:<\/span>
Love it, would use it: 8 votes, roughly 6%
Love it but wouldn’t use it: 23 votes, roughly 16%
Like it: 41 votes, roughly 29%
Neutral: 24 votes, roughly 17%
Dislike it: 34 votes, roughly 24%
Hate it: 10 votes, roughly 7%]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren had their baby girl this week and named her Honor Marie. During my last pregnancy, I came upon the name Honor in a novel and lovvvvvvvved it. I immediately added it to my girl-name list and considered it a strong candidate: I love virtue names, and I love the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1SD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}