Horatio

Where Horatio comes from

From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace.
— Wiktionary's entry for Horatio
  • Latin
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1832
    Horatio Alger born
    American novelist
  2. 1850
    Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener born
    Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army
  3. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #465 among boys with 15 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  4. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #706.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener · Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army, 1850–1916
  • Horatio Alger · American novelist, 1832–1899
  • Horatio Gates · American general in the American Revolutionary War, 1727–1806
  • Horatio Seymour · American politician, 1810–1886
  • Horatio Parker · American composer and teacher, 1863–1919

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.