Meaning and history
Horatio is a variant of Horatius. Shakespeare used it for a character in his tragedy Hamlet (1600), and the name was later borne by the British admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), who became famous for defeating Napoleon’s forces at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he was killed. Since then, the name has occasionally been used in his honour.
20062006: 9 births, rank #7,998
2007: 40 births, rank #2,920
2008: 28 births, rank #3,744
2009: 28 births, rank #3,721
2010: 29 births, rank #3,633
20112011: 10 births, rank #7,502
2012: 11 births, rank #7,050
2013: 15 births, rank #5,659
2014: 10 births, rank #7,562
2015: 9 births, rank #8,040
20162016: 16 births, rank #5,555
2017: 12 births, rank #6,685
2018: 13 births, rank #6,345
2019: 8 births, rank #8,889
2020: 12 births, rank #6,620
20212021: 12 births, rank #6,698
2022: 8 births, rank #8,990
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: 8 births, rank #8,987
20252025: 6 births, rank #10,695
Horatio rose from #961 to #748 for boys between 1893 and 1899. Its highest annual birth count came in 1880, with 15 births.