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Pronunciation
  
HOW-erd

Word/name
  
Old Norse

Gender
  
Masculine

Related names
  
Howie, Ward

Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old Norse Hávarðr, which means "high guard". A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900-1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960–1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990–2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include:

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Given name

  • Howard Duane Allman (1946–1971), American guitar virtuoso
  • Howard Burnett (born 1961), Jamaican track and field athlete
  • Howard J. Burnett (born 1929), American president of Washington & Jefferson College
  • Howard Carter (1874–1939), English archaeologist and Egyptologist
  • Howard Carter (disambiguation), name of several other people
  • Howard Cosell (1918–1995), sports broadcaster
  • Howard Ward Cunningham (born 1949), American founder of WikiWikiWeb
  • 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 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 (born 1940), American actor
  • Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviation pioneer and film mogul
  • 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 Lederer (born 1964), professional poker player
  • H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American writer
  • Howard McNear (1905–1969), American radio and television actor
  • Howard Marks (born 1945), former teacher, drug smuggler and author
  • Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist (the proponent of Systems Ecology and Emergy)
  • Howard Allen O'Brien, birth name of American writer Anne Rice
  • Howard Payne (athlete) (1931–1992), English hammer thrower
  • Howard Shore (born 1946), Canadian composer
  • Howard Smothers (born 1973), American football player
  • Howard Staunton (1810-1874), British chess player and Shakespearean scholar
  • Howard Stern (born 1954), American talk-radio host
  • Howard Stidham (born 1954), American football player
  • Howard Tayler (born 1968), American cartoonist
  • Howard Turner (1897–1976), American football player
  • Howard K. Stern (born 1968), attorney for Anna Nicole Smith
  • Howard Unruh (1921–2009), American spree killer
  • Howard Wilkinson (born 1943), English football manager
  • 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 (born 1971), Big Brother contestant
  • Howie Gordon (later known as Richard Pacheco), American pornographic actor
  • Howie Hawkins, American politician and activist
  • Howie Long (born 1960), American football player
  • Howie Mandel (born 1955), Canadian comedian and actor, host of the TV show Deal or No Deal
  • Howie Meeker (born 1924), 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 Winter (born 1929), American mobster

    • Fictional characters

  • Howard Cunningham (Happy Days character), in the Happy Days TV series
  • Howard Huge, a comic strip dog
  • Howard Hunter, in the TV series Hill Street Blues, played by James B. Sikking
  • Howard McBride, in the animated series The Loud House
  • Howard McGreggor, in the TV series Fresh Meat
  • 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 Iron Man Tony Stark
  • 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

    • References

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