Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Egyptian.
The story
In mythological stories, Horus is associated with the god of light.
Horus through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 87 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,946 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +56%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,946 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Horus’s family of names
In English usage, Horus has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Ώρος.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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