MEANING & HISTORY
What does Honorato mean?
Honorato continues the Latin Honoratus name family. The Real Academia Galega explains the older Roman name through honour and esteem and explicitly gives Honorato as a Spanish and Portuguese equivalent.
This establishes the exact spelling without borrowing a meaning from a merely similar name. Honorata is its corresponding feminine form in the same source.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
People with the name Honorato
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
José Honorato Lozano
Filipino painter
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: José Honorato Lozano
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Honorato in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Honorato
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Honorata♀Honoured; esteemed
- Honorio♂Conferring honor; form of Honorius
- Donato♂Given
- Honesto·Honest or upright in its Spanish word association
- Honória♀Honour or esteem, through Honorius
- Nonato·Not born, in the Latin expression non natus
- Deodato♂Given by God
- Homobono♂Good man, preserved in the saint’s name tradition
What rhymes with Honorato?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Recorded combinations with Honorato
1 source-reported compound forms include this name as a component. Each part keeps its own history.
Names in this collection
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q21286060 — Honorato (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — José Honorato Lozano (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q21286060 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Real Academia Galega — Honorato, Honorata (opens in a new tab)
Exact name equivalents and the Honoratus/honorare etymology.