Howard

Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German *Hugihard "heart-brave", or *Hoh-ward, literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probably in some cases a confusion with the Old Norse cognate Haward (Hávarðr), which means "high guard", and as a surname also with the unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases it is from the Old English eowu hierde "ewe herd". In Anglo-Norman the French digram -ou- was often rendered as -ow- such as tour → tower, flour (western variant form of fleur) → flower, etc. (with svarabakhti). A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900 and 1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960 and 1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990 and 2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include:
Given name
Howard Allen (1949–2020), American serial killer
Howard Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso
Howard Anderson (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Andrew (1934–2021), American poker player
Howard Ashman (1950–1991), American lyricist known for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
Howard Baker (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Bragman (1956–2023), American crisis manager and publicist
Howard W. Brill (born 1943), chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
Howard Burnett (athlete) (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
Howard J. Burnett (1929–2019), American president of Washington & Jefferson College
Howard Carpendale (born 1946), German singer
Howard Carter (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
Howard Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb
Howard David, American sportscaster
Howard Davies (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Davis (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Dean (born 1948), American politician
Howard Donald (born 1968), English singer
Howard Devoto (born Howard Trafford, 1952), English singer-songwriter
Howard Duff (1913–1990), American actor
Howard Eastman (born 1970), Guyanese-British boxer
Howard Ehmke (1894–1959), American baseball pitcher
Howard Eisenberg (born 1926), American author and journalist
Howard Eisley (born 1972), American basketball player and coach
Howard Engel (1931–2019), Canadian mystery writer
Howard Eskin (born 1951), American sports radio personality
Howard Evans (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Goodall (born 1958), British musician, musicologist and TV presenter
Howard Grant (boxer) (born 1966), Jamaican-Canadian boxer
Howard Hawks (1896–1977), American producer
Howard Hesseman (1940–2022), American actor
Howard Hotson, British historian
Howard A. Howe (1901–1976), American virologist
Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
Howard Jacobson (born 1942), British novelist and journalist
Howard Johnson (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Jones (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Judd (1935–2007), American physician and medical researcher
Howard Keel (1919–2004), singer and actor born Harry Keel
Howard Kendall, English football player and manager
Howard Andrew Knox (1885–1949), American physician
Howard Lassoff (1955–2013), American-Israeli basketball player
Howard Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
Howard Lesnick (1931–2020), American, Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Howard Long (1905–1939), American convicted murderer
H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer (full name Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
Howard Hamilton Mackey (1901–1987), American architect, educator
Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
Howard Marks (1945–2016), teacher, drug smuggler and author
Howard Matthews (1885–1963), English footballer
Howard W. Mattson (1927–1998), American chemist and journalist
Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist
Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of American writer Anne Rice
Howard Payne (athlete) (1931–1992), English hammer thrower
Howard Schatz, American fine art photographer
Howard Shore (born 1946), Canadian composer
Howard Smith (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Smothers (born 1973), American football player
Howard Spira, American gambler who was paid by George Steinbrenner to find dirt on baseball player Dave Winfield
Howard Stableford (born 1959), British television and radio presenter
Howard Staunton (1810–1874), British chess player and Shakespearean scholar
Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
Howard Stidham (born 1954), American football player
Howard Stupp (born 1955), Canadian Olympic wrestler
Howard Tayler (born 1968), American cartoonist
Howard Turner (1897–1976), American football player
Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
Howard Wales (1943–2020), American musician
Howard Walker (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Walter (1883–1918), American Congregationalist minister and hymnist
Howard Watt (1911–2005), South African rugby union player
Howard Watts III (born 1987), American politician
Howard Wilkinson (born 1943), English football manager
Howard Williams (disambiguation), name of several people
Howard Wilson (American football) (born 1995), American football player
Howard Wilson (physicist), British physicist
Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist
Howie
Howie B (born 1963), Scottish musician and producer Howard Bernstein
Howie Carr (born 1952), American journalist
Howie Day (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
Howie Dorough (born 1973), American musician with Backstreet Boys
Howie Epstein (1955–2003), American musician
Howie Gordon (later known as Richard Pacheco), American pornographic actor
Howie Hawkins, American politician and activist
Howie Long (born 1960), American former football player and actor
Howie Mandel (born 1955), Canadian comedian and actor, host of the TV show Deal or No Deal
Howie Meeker (1923–2020), Canadian hockey player, TV sports announcer, Member of Parliament
Howie Morenz (1902–1937), Canadian ice hockey player
Howie Nave (born 1956), American comedian, radio personality, writer, promoter and movie critic
Howie Rose (born 1954), American sportscaster
Howie Severino (born 1961), Filipino broadcast journalist
Howie Winter (1929–2020), American mobster
Fictional characters
Howard Bellamy (Doctors), in the British soap opera Doctors
Howard Clifford, a fictional villain in the Detective Pikachu movie
Howard Cunningham (Happy Days), in the TV series Happy Days
Howard Hamlin, a fictional character on the AMC television series Better Call Saul
Howard Huge, a comic strip dog
Howard Hunter, in the TV series Hill Street Blues, played by James B. Sikking
Howard Langston, in the 1996 film Jingle All the Way
Howard McBride, in the animated series The Loud House
Howard McGreggor, in the TV series Fresh Meat (TV series)
Howard Moon, in the TV series The Mighty Boosh, portrayed by Julian Barratt
Howard Roark, protagonist of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead
Howard Stark, father of Tony Stark/Iron Man
Howard Wolowitz, a fictional character on the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, portrayed by actor Simon Helberg.
Howard the Duck, a comic book character
Howard Link, a "Crow" and Inspector for the Black Order in the anime/manga D. Gray Man
Howard Marner, a fictional character from Short Circuit (1986 film)
Howard Silk, main character and agent in the TV series Counterpart (TV series)
Howard DeVille, in the animated series Rugrats
References
English masculine given names
Masculine given names
Given names originating from a surname