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Comments for HORATIO:

A famous bearer of this name is the sea-braving literary hero of C.S. Forester's novels (and an A&E series) Horatio Hornblower.
-- Bonapartist  9/23/2005
Horatio is in "Lt. Horatio Caine" of the TV serie "CSI: Miami".
-- Charlie1977  11/9/2005
Horatio Alger, a popular and famed dime novelist of the nineteenth century also bore this name.
-- Alturas  2/22/2007
A not-so famous bearer, Horatio Sanz in Saturday Night Live.
-- spaz123  4/21/2007
You mean to say nobody's mentioned Horatio from "Hamlet"?
-- Eilicea  6/21/2007
German pronuncation is "ho-RAH-tsyo".
-- Karcoolka  1/24/2008
This name sounds pompous, elitist, pretentious, and foreign, and it's extremely ugly.
-- slight night shiver  6/2/2008
This name looks extremely snobbish and pretentious. It is also dated. Who is named Horatio anymore? However, I do like Orazio, the Italian form of this name.
-- bananarama  7/14/2008
General Horatio Gates was an American Revolutionary War General. He joined the American cause in 1775 and joined the Continental army.
-- Rockos_Modern_Life_1  10/12/2008
The name of the title character in Catherine Webb's Horatio Lyle books.
-- nenmo  2/14/2009
This name always makes me laugh. It's kind of like those actors who take all the dark and scary characters in the movies and then fail to fix their cowlicks and just end up looking like lost puppies.
-- welovejamesarness  6/7/2009
I absolutely love this name. It sounds confident, strong, and different. I don't think I would use it as a first name (Think of what you would have to shorten it to: either "Hor" or "Ratio"), but as a middle name, I think it works well.
-- plutogirlgenius  8/23/2009
I think this is a nice name for a cute puppy or a kitty or a stuffed dolphin.
-- welovejamesarness  11/10/2009
I love this name, just because of Horatius Cocles, a legendary Roman soldier who almost single-handedly defended a bridge against attacking Etruscans.
-- dramaelf  5/20/2010
Horatio Hornblower is the main character in a series of novels by C.S. Forester.
-- Nitrojen  6/25/2010
Horatio Spafford, writer of the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul".
-- Anonymous User  3/20/2011
A boy from Wiltshire called Horatio Chapple was just eaten by a polar bear. True story! Could only happen to a Horatio, eh?
-- nosmartname  8/17/2011
It makes me think of math... that being said, it gets the ax.
-- GibsonGirl  10/28/2011

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