A male given name, famously from Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' where Horatio is Hamlet's closest friend and confidant.
From the Roman family name Horatius, possibly derived from 'hora' meaning 'hour' in Latin, or from an Etruscan origin. The name became especially famous through literature.
Horatio in Hamlet is one of literature's most loyal friends—he's the only person Hamlet fully trusts, and his famous last words are 'Good night, sweet prince'—making Horatio the character who gets to tell Hamlet's story to the world.
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