Horatio
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 15 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,443since 1880
Horatio over time
Rank among boys' names. Horatio has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #6,620 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #2,920 | 40 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #3,205 | 18 |
| 1988 | #3,079 | 17 |
| 1987 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,473 | 18 |
| 1977 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #1,886 | 24 |
| 1973 | #2,124 | 19 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,279 | 17 |
| 1970 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #3,314 | 8 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,858 | 9 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #2,322 | 13 |
| 1960 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #2,642 | 10 |
| 1957 | #2,494 | 11 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | #3,176 | 7 |
| 1953 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #1,774 | 18 |
| 1950 | #2,770 | 8 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #2,443 | 10 |
| 1947 | #2,498 | 10 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,459 | 5 |
| 1939 | #2,288 | 10 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | #2,062 | 12 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,214 | 11 |
| 1932 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #2,651 | 9 |
| 1930 | #2,178 | 13 |
| 1929 | #2,589 | 10 |
| 1928 | #2,162 | 14 |
| 1927 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #2,302 | 13 |
| 1925 | #2,193 | 14 |
| 1924 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1923 | #2,123 | 15 |
| 1922 | #1,695 | 21 |
| 1921 | #1,829 | 19 |
| 1920 | #1,694 | 21 |
| 1919 | #2,152 | 14 |
| 1918 | #1,710 | 20 |
| 1917 | #2,423 | 11 |
| 1916 | #1,646 | 19 |
| 1915 | #1,878 | 15 |
| 1914 | #1,342 | 20 |
| 1913 | #1,256 | 17 |
| 1912 | #1,417 | 12 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,277 | 6 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,004 | 7 |
| 1905 | #1,233 | 5 |
| 1904 | — | |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,162 | 6 |
| 1899 | #714 | 9 |
| 1898 | #1,121 | 5 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #982 | 6 |
| 1895 | #1,079 | 5 |
| 1894 | #954 | 6 |
| 1893 | #907 | 6 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | #884 | 6 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | #845 | 6 |
| 1885 | #936 | 5 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #892 | 5 |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | #706 | 7 |
| 1880 | #465 | 15 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Horatio was already there! It came in at #465, and was given to 15 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1885, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Horatio
- 1,708 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #10,695)
- 4,075 spots since 2020 (#6,620 → #10,695)
- 2,655 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 407 spots in 1899 (#1,121 → #714)
- Biggest drop: 448 spots in 1900 (#714 → #1,162)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #465 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 1880–1883
- Highest: 1 in 7,366 boys born in 1880 were named Horatio (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 12.0% of all boys named Horatio (173) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | #465 (1880) | #786 |
| 1890s | 43 | #714 (1899) | #949 |
| 1900s | 24 | #1,004 (1906) | #1,169 |
| 1910s | 128 | #1,256 (1913) | #1,728 |
| 1920s | 151 | #1,694 (1920) | #2,226 |
| 1930s | 77 | #2,062 (1936) | #2,526 |
| 1940s | 44 | #2,277 (1943) | #2,696 |
| 1950s | 98 | #1,774 (1951) | #2,542 |
| 1960s | 88 | #1,918 (1965) | #2,877 |
| 1970s | 164 | #1,886 (1974) | #2,550 |
| 1980s | 132 | #2,898 (1981) | #3,485 |
| 1990s | 92 | #4,005 (1991) | #6,215 |
| 2000s | 173 | #2,920 (2007) | #5,810 |
| 2010s | 133 | #3,633 (2010) | #6,692 |
| 2020s | 46 | #6,620 (2020) | #8,398 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Horatio in 1896
Top boys' names in 1896
More about 1896
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119,565 boys got a published name in 1896; 1 in 19,928 of them was named Horatio, which outranked 22.4% of the 1,266 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).