Horia

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/horija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Horia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
  • MDMoldova1 in 210K
  • SESweden1 in 232K

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.

United States (measured from records)

208 people, 2020

Sources
122 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Horia 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.

Where Horia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2081 in 1.6M141Horia122
ES Spain—1841 in 272K184Horia23
SE Sweden—441 in 232K44Horia18
AF Afghanistan—≈44 est.≈1 in 838K1—2
NL Netherlands—231 in 751K23—8
MD Moldova—161 in 210K16—4
DK Denmark—161 in 367K8——
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——
RO Romania#498———Horia101

208 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); e-services.md — living population register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Horia is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Horía, Hörïä

  • Ukrainian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Also written Хорія

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Horia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, A fishing smack

    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)

1850190019502000Horia Creangă, b. 1893H. Bonciu, b. 1893Horia Macellariu, b. 1894Horia Hulubei, b. 1896Horia Sima, b. 1903Horia Agarici, b. 1911Horia Lovinescu, b. 1917Horia Moculescu, b. 1937Horia Brenciu, b. 1972Horia Tecău, b. 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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Horia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10#120,154
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—8#44,323

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Horia?
A machine transcription gives /horija/ (IPA) for Romanian.
Is Horia a male or female name?
Horia is a female 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.
What are other forms of the name Horia?
In the etymology graph, Horea is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Horia have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 208 people named Horia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horia.
Where is Horia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Horia is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Horia?
In the United States, the national register counted 208 people named Horia in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
How common is Horia compared with other names?
In Romania, Horia is the 498th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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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, “Horia” — the 498th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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