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Very pretty name, sounds like the name of a fantasy prince.
Old fashioned.
Sounds like a name of a foreign exchange student. Doesn’t really sound like a name. But I’m a sucker for names that end with “O” so it’s decent.
The German variant of the name is "Horaz".
Personally, I like Horatio. "Ray" could be a potential nickname.
Horatio Spafford wrote the hymn, "It is Well With My Soul" after his son died of pneumonia, and his four daughters drowned in a ship collision.
It makes me think of math... that being said, it gets the ax.
A boy from Wiltshire called Horatio Chapple was just eaten by a polar bear. True story! Could only happen to a Horatio, eh?
Horatio Spafford, writer of the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul".
Horatio Hornblower is the main character in a series of novels by C.S. Forester.
I love this name, just because of Horatius Cocles, a legendary Roman soldier who almost single-handedly defended a bridge against attacking Etruscans.
I think this is a nice name for a cute puppy or a kitty or a stuffed dolphin.
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.
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.
The name of the title character in Catherine Webb's Horatio Lyle books.
General Horatio Gates was an American Revolutionary War General. He joined the American cause in 1775 and joined the Continental army.
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.
This name sounds pompous, elitist, pretentious, and foreign, and it's extremely ugly.
German pronuncation is "ho-RAH-tsyo".
You mean to say nobody's mentioned Horatio from "Hamlet"?
A not-so famous bearer, Horatio Sanz in Saturday Night Live.
Horatio Alger, a popular and famed dime novelist of the nineteenth century also bore this name.
Horatio is in "Lt. Horatio Caine" of the TV serie "CSI: Miami".
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.

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