Boy
Horace
Horace is a boy's name meaning "Latin Horatius", drawing on Latin roots. It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1921.
LatinLatin "Horatius"
RomanRoman clan name, possibly linked to "hour, time"
Births by decade
1900s
2,125
1910s
8,512
1920s
11,841
1930s
8,171
1940s
6,898
1950s
5,748
1960s
3,152
1970s
1,817
1980s
1,118
1990s
753
2000s
384
2010s
219
Peaked in the 1920s · 50,738 total U.S. births since 1900