Horatius
given name · Latin script
Meaning: mtn., Sinai peninsula
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɔˈɹeɪʃəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horatius is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ZASouth Africa
- NGNigeria
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
mtn., Sinai peninsula
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Horatius is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Horeb [Sinai]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, männl. Vom. lateinischen Ur sprungs, der auf einen altrömischen Ge- schlechtemamen zurückgeht. Der Name ist durch den römischen Dichter Quintus Hora tius Flaccus (= Horaz) bekannt. Die englische
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latin, The name of a Roman gēns.
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)
- Horatius Paulijnb. 1644GBHoubraken: (1634-1682), V3, p 186
- Horatius Bonarb. 1808GBBritish minister and poet (1808-1889)
- Thaddeus H. Carawayb. 1871USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1871-1931)
- Horatius Haeberleb. 1940DEGerman actor and author
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #9,527 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 does the name Horatius mean, and where does it come from?
- mtn., Sinai peninsula Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Horatius?
- In the etymology graph, Horacio, Horace and Orazio are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Horatius?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔˈɹeɪʃəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Horatius a male or female name?
- Horatius 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 Horatius have the most bearers?
- Horatius is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horatiusThe 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, “Horatius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.