# Horacio (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/horacio/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,502 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 4,502 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 47 | 2,604 |
| 2012 | 45 | 2,692 |
| 2013 | 30 | 3,530 |
| 2014 | 33 | 3,328 |
| 2015 | 35 | 3,264 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,518 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,268 |
| 2018 | 39 | 3,020 |
| 2019 | 28 | 3,839 |
| 2020 | 34 | 3,298 |
| 2021 | 26 | 4,056 |
| 2022 | 37 | 3,238 |
| 2023 | 26 | 4,152 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,240 |
| 2025 | 31 | 3,604 |

## People named Horacio

- Horacio Cartes, 49th President of Paraguay
- Horacio Elizondo, Argentine football referee
- Horacio Zeballos, Argentine tennis player (born 1985)
- José Horacio Gómez, American Roman Catholic archbishop
- Horacio Muñoz, Chilean footballer (1896-1976)
- Horacio Podestá, Argentine rower (1911-1999)
- Horacio Accavallo, Argentine boxer (1934–2022)
- Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer (1925-2017)
- Horacio de la Peña, Argentine tennis player
- Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Argentine economist and politician
- Horacio Salgán, Argentine musician (1916–2016)
- Horacio Coppola, Argentine photographer (1906–2012)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.