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Horatio

#11,167 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Horatius

Horatio has been given to 1,443 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,167 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Horatio, 2025

1 in 553,000

Horatio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Horatio: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Horatius

Latin

What Horatio means

Horatio is a variant of Horatius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Horatio is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.oʊ/ and /hə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃoʊ/ for Horatio.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.

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Origin, language, and formation

Horatio is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Horatio comes through Latin Horātius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Horatius and Horace.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Horatio is pronounced /həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,443 boys were recorded with the name Horatio between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 2007; its best national rank was #474 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,764 in 2020 to #11,167 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,282 in 2015 to #11,167 in 2025.

How common is Horatio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,167
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Horatio 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Horatio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Horatios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Horatio was born before 1971 — so the typical Horatio is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
12.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
926
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 12.0% of all recorded uses (173).

Is Horatio 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
−1,846
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,403
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,885
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.0%
Peak was 2007 (40)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#474
1880

Spellings of Horatio

Horatio is not the most common spelling — Horacio is, with 75.7% against Horatio's 24.3%.

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 Horatio is used

Across 1910–2025, Horatio was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 951,359 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Horatio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Horatio around the world

Where Horatio 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2024
    #4,710
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2004–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Horatio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,167
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,403
Best rank ever
#474
1880
Peak year
2007
40 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,443
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Horatio

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

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Sibling names for Horatio

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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