Comments on: Name of the Day: Horatio

By: Marianne

Marianne — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:52:31 +0000

You are right, loving it, because it is such a beautiful name.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:40:43 +0000

mmmh….nice!….2 at a time…..nice regards to your daddy too.

By: Eo Space-Bound Venable

Eo Space-Bound Venable — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:35:12 +0000

i have been called hershey by the girls also … wierd

By: Eo Space-Bound Venable

Eo Space-Bound Venable — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:34:01 +0000

My names Horatio and i love the name so is my dads (:

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:02:32 +0000

…Oh no, its not horrendous but WONDERFUL.
I Iove this name!

But 12 little Horatios and 3 Horaces are MUCH TOO LESS for England. They have such an hero like Horatio Nelson and moreover even Shakespeares Horatio, but only 15 Horatio/Horaces in one year?….better should be 1.500!
Dear British Parents, let us have some more Horatios please!

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:24:14 +0000

Oh yes, this is true! But I think, there should be more little boys be named Horatio in Germany.
The name is a phonetic tidbits, a candy to hear, indeed!

By: Horacio

Horacio — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:45:51 +0000

I myself am a Horacio, only a select few can have this name bestowed. Just like the men 300. LOL. Anyway as far as nicknames go ive been called Hershey by girls, and Hibachi by the guys. I like both equally.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:14:08 +0000

Oh…..Really my favorite name. For me the most beautiful name. I like it especially in German pronounciation. If I had a boy, I would call him “Horatio”

To the nick-names:
Horatio Hornblowers wife Maria called him “Horay”
You also could call him “ratio”, what in latin means “reason”

there are a lot of famous Horatios whom I like, as Horatio Spafford.
And of course Hamlets fried! I Iike him very much! He was nearly a saint. He was not “hanging around Hamlet”, he tried to help him. An at last, when Hamlet died, he said the most famos and beautiful words “Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angles sing thy to thay rest”.
Shakespeare lets him speek out his most beautiful lyriks. When the sun raises, Horatio said “…but look, the morn in rosset mantle clad walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill”.

Some people say, it is an Etruskian Name.
But if the name is related to latin hora – hour , then, may be there is a connection to the Egyptian God Horus in the background….who was the Lord of time…..may be, it means “a believer to the God Horus”, like “Christian” means ” a believer to Christus.

Sorry for my English is not perfekt….I am a German

By: appellationmountain

appellationmountain — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:52:04 +0000

I want to live somewhere where I can use “toff” as an insult. “Sissy” just doesn’t have the same ring.

Me, I’d have a Horatio in a heartbeat. But then, I like names that end in vowel sounds. And my ‘hood is heavily Spanish-speaking – Mechi, he’d be called ohr-aaah-see-oh by some of our neighbors, I’m sure. (Insert standard disclaimer about not being pregnant here.)

Not sure how Horatio would work in Polish, though …

By: mechi

mechi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:51:14 +0000

Sorry, but I absolutely hate this name. It’s my grandfather’s name (the spanish version of it, anyway.. my grandpa’s name is Horacio). And while i do like the sound of it in spanish (Ohr-aaah-see-o), the english sound just doesn’t role off the tongue. And it’s too close to Horace, which, no offense to anyone, is just one of the ugliest names I’ve ever heard in my life.