boys:
4.4k births since 1914
#1819 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1914
#4105 (47th percentile)
The name Horacio is the #4,105 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,434 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 46.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,819 (60.3% percentile) for all time with 4,434 births since 1914.
Horacio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914).
For boys, Horacio reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #724) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 51 births per million (ranked 12.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Horacio ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 27.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Horacio".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Horacio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Horacio is pronounced as aw-RAH-shee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is haw-RAY-see-oh, at 20.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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