Favor

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 26 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
26
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Favor by the numbers

Favor was given to 26 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 29 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Favor

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Favor. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Favoursupport or approval; virtue of goodwill16 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Faron19 in the US (2017)
  • Falon18 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Favor

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