Horacio
Horacio was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,603 among boys’ names; 4,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,800 Americans named Horacio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 22 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Horacio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Horacio mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Horacio is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Horace”
Borrowed from Latin Horātius, of obscure origin.
/oˈɾaθjo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Horacio?
#3,603 among boys’ names, 2025
Horacio fell from #3,263 in 2015 to #3,603 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 18.1 per million.
106 babies in 2001, the peak
Horacio peaked in 2001, when 106 boys were given it, #1,257 among boys’ names. The 31 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,603 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,238 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,148 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,236 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,052 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,296 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,836 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,018 | 21.5 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,266 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,517 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,263 | 18.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,326 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,528 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,691 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,603 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,103 | 33.4 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,080 | 33.3 |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,030 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 91 | #1,674 | 43.8 |
| 2006 | 75 | #1,831 | 36.5 |
| 2005 | 78 | #1,712 | 39.1 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,658 | 39.3 |
| 2003 | 81 | #1,567 | 41.0 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,347 | 50.5 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,257 | 54.6 |
| 2000 | 92 | #1,372 | 46.8 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,355 | 45.8 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,322 | 47.1 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,442 | 39.8 |
| 1996 | 75 | #1,404 | 39.6 |
| 1995 | 82 | #1,295 | 43.1 |
| 1994 | 87 | #1,243 | 45.0 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,146 | 48.9 |
| 1992 | 81 | #1,253 | 40.6 |
| 1991 | 79 | #1,251 | 39.1 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,224 | 38.9 |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,228 | 38.0 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,263 | 34.5 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,259 | 32.1 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,337 | 29.3 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,337 | 28.1 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,088 | 37.7 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,186 | 32.9 |
| 1982 | 71 | #1,085 | 39.1 |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,025 | 44.1 |
| 1980 | 81 | #1,007 | 45.4 |
| 1979 | 61 | #1,159 | 35.4 |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,104 | 38.4 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,001 | 45.0 |
| 1976 | 61 | #1,073 | 38.9 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,218 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,141 | 33.1 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,282 | 26.9 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,144 | 31.5 |
| 1971 | 39 | #1,362 | 22.1 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,243 | 24.2 |
| 1969 | 38 | #1,286 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,224 | 22.4 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,264 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,409 | 16.8 |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,323 | 18.3 |
| 1964 | 32 | #1,393 | 16.1 |
| 1963 | 22 | #1,717 | 10.8 |
| 1962 | 23 | #1,691 | 11.1 |
| 1961 | 30 | #1,478 | 14.1 |
| 1960 | 29 | #1,501 | 13.6 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,218 | 19.2 |
| 1958 | 26 | #1,541 | 12.3 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,467 | 13.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,857 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,658 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 26 | #1,510 | 12.8 |
| 1953 | 20 | #1,738 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,773 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,799 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,513 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,900 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,061 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,301 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,983 | 8.6 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,051 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,845 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,605 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,449 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,039 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,241 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,227 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,584 | 17.1 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,719 | 15.9 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,754 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,789 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,637 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,615 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,684 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,737 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,620 | 19.1 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,500 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,541 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,986 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,009 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,130 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,998 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,067 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,557 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,638 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,084 | 15.0 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,928 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,978 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,250 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,330 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,596 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,070 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Horacio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Horacio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 112 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Horacio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Horacio, and how old are they?
3,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 4,502 Americans ever recorded as Horacio. The median Horacio alive today is 33 years old; half are between 22 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 9,603 people named Horacio (9 women and girls, 9,594 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,748 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 298 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 708 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 410 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Horacio born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,537 | 2.5× |
Where Horacio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Horacio is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Horacio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 58,858 babies since 1880, Horacio is the second most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 45 babies (69%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Horacio
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Horacio and names like it
- Compare Horacio and HoraceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHoracio peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Horacio since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Horacio: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Horacio.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Horacio alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.