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Horacio

#3,603 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Horatius

Horacio has been given to 4,502 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,603 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Horacio, 2025

1 in 107,000

Horacio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Horacio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Horatius

Latin

What Horacio means

Horacio is a form of Horatius.

Origin, language, and formation

Horacio is used in Esperanto and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Horacio comes through English Horatio.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Horatius, Horatio and Horace.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Horacio is pronounced /horaˈt͡sio/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,502 boys were recorded with the name Horacio between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2001; its best national rank was #1,001 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,296 in 2020 to #3,603 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,263 in 2015 to #3,603 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Horacio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,603
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Horacio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Horacio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Horacios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Horacio was born before 1989 — so the typical Horacio is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,996
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Choose a decade

2000s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (834).

Is Horacio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−365
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−307
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−340
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 2001 (106)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,001
1977

Spellings of Horacio

Horacio is not the most common spelling — Horace is, with 90.1% against Horacio's 7.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Horacio is used

Across 1910–2025, Horacio was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 23,375 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 9,091
  2. 2Texas1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Horacio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Horacio around the world

Where Horacio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1965–2024
    #6,423
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Horacio

People whose public names include Horacio, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Horacio in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Horacio. Linked forms have their own page here.

HoraceOrazioHoratioHorațiuHoratius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Horacio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 307
Best rank ever
#1,001
1977
Peak year
2001
106 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,502
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Horacio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Horacio

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Horacio, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Horacio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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