Horace
Horace is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 79th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19211,313 births
- Best rank
- #79in 1880
- Since 1880
- 54,141people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,141 boys have been named Horace in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 1,313 births — 0.12% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 1,313 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 109 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Horace | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,650 | |
| 1890s | 1,814 | |
| 1900s | 2,125 | |
| 1910s | 8,489 | |
| 1920s | 11,777 | |
| 1930s | 8,126 | |
| 1940s | 6,876 | |
| 1950s | 5,719 | |
| 1960s | 3,139 | |
| 1970s | 1,816 | |
| 1980s | 1,118 | |
| 1990s | 753 | |
| 2000s | 384 | |
| 2010s | 262 | |
| 2020s | 93 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Horace was the 129th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Horace
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Millardpeak 1922
- Walterpeak 1918
- Lymanpeak 1917
- Albertpeak 1921
- Elbertpeak 1920
- Homerpeak 1920
- Clarencepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.