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Orazio

Boys' name

Form of Horatius

Orazio has been given to 310 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Orazio, 2024

1 in 418,000

Orazio over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Orazio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Horatius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Orazio means

Orazio is a form of Horatius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Orazio is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.ˈrat.t͡sjo/ for Orazio.

Origin, language, and formation

Orazio comes through Latin Horatius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Horatius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Orazio is pronounced /oˈrat.t͡sjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 310 boys were recorded with the name Orazio between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1918; its best national rank was #2,049 in 1918.

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 Orazio?

Orazio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Orazio 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Orazio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orazios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Orazio was born before 1927 — so the typical Orazio is around 98 today.

Median birth year
1927
About 98 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
30.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
87
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 30.6% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Orazio 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (16)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,049
1918

Spellings of Orazio

Orazio is not the most common spelling — Horacio is, with 72.0% against Orazio's 5.0%.

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 Orazio is used

Across 1910–2025, Orazio was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 177,651 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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. Orazio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Orazio around the world

Where Orazio 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
    1912–2022
    #6,510
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1955–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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.

Orazio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,049
1918
Peak year
1918
16 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
310
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Orazio

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

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Sibling names for Orazio

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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