In Australia and the United States, the prefix is also used for magistrates (spelled in the American style, "Honor").
A corruption of the term, "Hizzoner", is sometimes used to irreverently refer to mayors of larger U.S. cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Philadelphia.
In Hong Kong, which retained much of England's judicial tradition, it is also used as a prefix for district court judges.
In the Philippines, uniquely, senators and representatives in Congress during Senate or congressional inquiries and impeachment procedures, and Commission on Elections officials when they convene as provincial and national boards of canvassers in post-election canvasses where certain members of Congress are also members of the national board, are mostly addressed as Your Honor, because it was unfortunately rendered from "the Spanish term for addressing parliamentarians, and a mistake made" when Congress's predecessor, the Philippine Legislature, abruptly changed to the use of English from "mainly Spanish in its deliberations.
"[2] Formerly, this style was sometimes used by an enlisted seaman when addressing the captain of a ship, though this practice has not been common since the early Nineteenth Century.