Horacio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Horatius, Roman gens name; probably Etruscan in origin, though folk-etymologies link it to hora or horātes
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oɾaθjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horacio is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 414(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 816
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #953 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 414 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Horatius, Roman gens name; probably Etruscan in origin, though folk-etymologies link it to hora or horātes.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horacio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #83 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 414 | 78 | Horacio | 150 |
| US United States | — | 9,603 | 1 in 35K | 9.6K | Horacio | 337 |
| CO Colombia | #485 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 5 | Horacio | 105 |
| BR Brazil | #902 | 5,213 | 1 in 41K | 6.9K | Horacio | 123 |
| VE Venezuela | #625 | 4,165 | 1 in 6.9K | 4.2K | Horacio | 52 |
| UY Uruguay | #83 | 4,149 | 1 in 816 | 4.1K | Horacio | 76 |
| CL Chile | #369 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 8 | Horacio | 92 |
| NI Nicaragua | #149 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Horacio | 21 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Horacio | 44 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Horacio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Horace (poet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Horatio or Horace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Horacio Quirogab. 1878UYUruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer (1878–1937)
- Horacio Coppolab. 1906ARArgentine photographer (1906–2012)
- Jorge Zorreguietab. 1928ARnot in their usual nameArgentine politician (1928-2017)
- José Horacio Gómezb. 1951MXAmerican Roman Catholic archbishop
- Horacio Cartesb. 1956PY49th President of Paraguay
- Santiago Amigorenab. 1962ARnot in their usual nameArgentine-French screenwriter, film producer, film director and actor
- Horacio Elizondob. 1963ARArgentine football referee
- Horacio de la Peñab. 1966ARArgentine tennis player
- Horatio Sanzb. 1969USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
- Horacio Zeballosb. 1985ARArgentine tennis player (born 1985)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.6K | #2,530 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 6.9K | #2,715 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 6.9K | #977 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 5.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.2K | #2,664 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 5.2K | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4.2K | #309 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 70 | #906 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Horacio?
- In the etymology graph, Horace, Orazio and Horatio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Horacio mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Horatius, Roman gens name; probably Etruscan in origin, though folk-etymologies link it to hora or horātes. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Horacio?
- A machine transcription gives /oɾaθjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Horacio a male or female name?
- Horacio is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Horacio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 thousand people named Horacio in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horacio.
- How common is the name Horacio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,603 people named Horacio in 2020, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Horacio compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Horacio is the 83rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Horacio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horacioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Horacio” — the 83rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.