Horus
- Gender
- Boy
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Horus is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
Is Horus a girl's or a boy's name?
Horus is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Horus in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Horus, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the boys named Horus in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Horus in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,693 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
Names like Horus
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Henry, Augustus, Cyrus, Moses, August, Ellis, Otto, Silas, Charlie, Amos, Emmett, Jasper
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Horus: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/horus, updated 20 October 2026.