Horatio
Horatio is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 474th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200740 births
- Best rank
- #474in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,437people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,437 boys have been named Horatio in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 40 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 40 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 2000s alone account for 12%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Horatio | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 43 | |
| 1900s | 24 | |
| 1910s | 128 | |
| 1920s | 151 | |
| 1930s | 77 | |
| 1940s | 44 | |
| 1950s | 98 | |
| 1960s | 88 | |
| 1970s | 164 | |
| 1980s | 132 | |
| 1990s | 92 | |
| 2000s | 173 | |
| 2010s | 133 | |
| 2020s | 40 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Horatio was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Horatio
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hirampeak 1920
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Webbpeak 1927
- Enospeak 1921
- Larkinpeak 2019
- Gustavpeak 1917
- Nelspeak 1918
- Burtpeak 1956
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.