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Baby name
Horace
Boy
Origin of the name
Horace comes from the Latin Horatius. The Latin poet Horace made it famous.
Classic name
54,154births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 129rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Horace are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Horace is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Horace is most common in Georgia (4.6 times), Alabama (4.2) and South Carolina (4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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