Hortencia
Hortencia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 745th, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192582 births
- Best rank
- #745in 1931
- Since 1902
- 3,963people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,963 girls have been named Hortencia in the United States since 1902, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 82 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 82 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1930s alone account for 17%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hortencia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 21 | |
| 1910s | 222 | |
| 1920s | 651 | |
| 1930s | 662 | |
| 1940s | 613 | |
| 1950s | 563 | |
| 1960s | 343 | |
| 1970s | 325 | |
| 1980s | 242 | |
| 1990s | 175 | |
| 2000s | 82 | |
| 2010s | 48 | |
| 2020s | 16 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Hortencia was the 823rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Hortencia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Veliapeak 1929
- Nadenepeak 1930
- Ninfapeak 1928
- Genellpeak 1932
- Ernestinapeak 1947
- Lupepeak 1927
- Eilenepeak 1946
- Socorropeak 1929
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.