boys:
1.4k births since 1880
#3211 (30th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1880
#6315 (18th percentile)
The name Horatio is the #6,315 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,429 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 18.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,211 (29.9% percentile) for all time with 1,429 births since 1880.
Horatio has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Horatio is available in 120 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Horatio reached its peak popularity in 1880, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #193) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 127 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Horatio".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Horatio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.6% confident that Horatio is pronounced as haw-RAY-shee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is huh-RAY-shee-oh, at 22.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AO0 R EY1 SH IY0 OW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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