Meaning not yet researched.
Horacio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,001 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,001 in 1977; #3,604 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Horacio in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,604 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,001.
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Horacio: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,001 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 106 (2001).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Horacio, making it the 3,604th most common boys’ name of the year, down 364 places from #3,240 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 37 boys named Horacio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,001, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 106, in 2001. For comparison, it was #3,264 in 2015 and #1,514 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Horacio in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 4,502 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 834 babies named Horacio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 315 US boys were named Horacio; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Horace (54,356 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Orazio are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Orazio (310).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Horacio in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,604 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,240 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,152 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,238 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,056 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,298 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,839 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #3,020 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,268 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,518 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,264 |
| 2014 | — | — | 33 | #3,328 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,530 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,692 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,604 |
| 2010 | — | — | 64 | #2,104 |
| 2009 | — | — | 66 | #2,081 |
| 2008 | — | — | 69 | #2,031 |
| 2007 | — | — | 91 | #1,674 |
| 2006 | — | — | 75 | #1,831 |
| 2005 | — | — | 78 | #1,715 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,661 |
| 2003 | — | — | 81 | #1,570 |
| 2002 | — | — | 98 | #1,350 |
| 2001 | — | — | 106 | #1,261 |
| 2000 | — | — | 92 | #1,375 |
| 1999 | — | — | 88 | #1,358 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,325 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,445 |
| 1996 | — | — | 75 | #1,406 |
| 1995 | — | — | 82 | #1,300 |
| 1994 | — | — | 87 | #1,247 |
| 1993 | — | — | 96 | #1,150 |
| 1992 | — | — | 81 | #1,257 |
| 1991 | — | — | 79 | #1,257 |
| 1990 | — | — | 80 | #1,229 |
| 1989 | — | — | 76 | #1,233 |
| 1988 | — | — | 66 | #1,267 |
| 1987 | — | — | 60 | #1,261 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,338 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,338 |
| 1984 | — | — | 68 | #1,089 |
| 1983 | — | — | 59 | #1,186 |
| 1982 | — | — | 71 | #1,085 |
| 1981 | — | — | 79 | #1,025 |
| 1980 | — | — | 81 | #1,007 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,159 |
| 1978 | — | — | 63 | #1,104 |
| 1977 | — | — | 74 | #1,001 |
| 1976 | — | — | 61 | #1,073 |
| 1975 | — | — | 49 | #1,218 |
| 1974 | — | — | 52 | #1,141 |
| 1973 | — | — | 42 | #1,282 |
| 1972 | — | — | 51 | #1,144 |
| 1971 | — | — | 39 | #1,362 |
| 1970 | — | — | 45 | #1,243 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,286 |
| 1968 | — | — | 39 | #1,224 |
| 1967 | — | — | 36 | #1,265 |
| 1966 | — | — | 30 | #1,410 |
| 1965 | — | — | 34 | #1,324 |
| 1964 | — | — | 32 | #1,394 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,718 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,692 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,479 |
| 1960 | — | — | 29 | #1,502 |
| 1959 | — | — | 41 | #1,219 |
| 1958 | — | — | 26 | #1,542 |
| 1957 | — | — | 29 | #1,468 |
| 1956 | — | — | 19 | #1,858 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,659 |
| 1954 | — | — | 26 | #1,511 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,739 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,774 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,800 |
| 1950 | — | — | 24 | #1,514 |
| 1949 | — | — | 16 | #1,901 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,062 |
| 1947 | — | — | 12 | #2,302 |
| 1946 | — | — | 14 | #1,984 |
| 1945 | — | — | 12 | #2,052 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,846 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,606 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,450 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,039 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,241 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,227 |
| 1938 | — | — | 19 | #1,584 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,719 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,754 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,789 |
| 1934 | — | — | 19 | #1,637 |
| 1933 | — | — | 19 | #1,615 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,684 |
| 1931 | — | — | 18 | #1,737 |
| 1930 | — | — | 21 | #1,620 |
| 1929 | — | — | 24 | #1,500 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,541 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,986 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,011 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,131 |
| 1924 | — | — | 17 | #1,998 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,068 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,558 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,640 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,085 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,929 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #2,979 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,331 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,597 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,071 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).