Hortense
Hortense is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 378th, in 1894, 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919229 births
- Best rank
- #378first in 1894
- Since 1880
- 6,313people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,313 girls have been named Hortense in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 229 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 229 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hortense | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 199 | |
| 1890s | 454 | |
| 1900s | 637 | |
| 1910s | 1,693 | |
| 1920s | 1,794 | |
| 1930s | 713 | |
| 1940s | 424 | |
| 1950s | 266 | |
| 1960s | 104 | |
| 1970s | 29 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Hortense was the 436th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Hortense
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Herminapeak 1916
- Elmapeak 1918
- Inezpeak 1920
- Estellepeak 1915
- Mablepeak 1922
- Violapeak 1918
- Elviepeak 1917
- Leotapeak 1918
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.