Horacio

Where Horacio comes from

Horacio hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1878
    Horacio Quiroga born
    Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer
  2. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,915 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1956
    Horacio Cartes born
    49th President of Paraguay
  4. 1977
    Peak, #998
    74 babies named Horacio — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,497.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Horacio Cartes · 49th President of Paraguay, born 1956
  • Horacio Quiroga · Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer, 1878–1937
  • Horacio Elizondo · Argentine football referee, born 1963
  • Horacio Zeballos · Argentine tennis player, born 1985
  • Horacio Pagani · Italian businessman, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.