Horatio is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Horatio in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Horatio in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Horatio by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Horatio ranks at #6,007. That means there are 6,006 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Horatio.
The first name Horatio is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 61 Americans in total bear this name. And these 61 men are located in only five states: California, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Horatio and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Horatio in relation to it’s male population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 451,322 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Horatio present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Horatio has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Horatio and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Horatio, you can simply say:
Hat
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Tiger
Igloo
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Horatio
Horatio
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
O
R
A
T
I
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
O
R
A
T
I
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Horatio sounds like this:
