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Hortencia

#13,840 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Hortencia has been given to 3,969 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #13,840 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1925, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Hortencia, 2025

1 in 553,000

Hortencia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hortencia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hortencia means

Hortencia is a given name.

The naming story behind Hortencia

Wikidata records Hortencia as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q64856252, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,969 girls were recorded with the name Hortencia between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 1925; its best national rank was #745 in 1931.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hortencia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,840
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hortencia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hortencia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hortencias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hortencia was born before 1947 — so the typical Hortencia is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,800
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1930s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (662).

Is Hortencia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,357
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1925 (82)
Years since peak
100
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#745
1931

Spellings of Hortencia

Hortencia is the most-used spelling, taking 68.9% of the 5,763 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hortencia is used

Across 1910–2025, Hortencia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 9,448 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,263
  2. 2Arizona1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hortencia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hortencia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hortencia. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hortencia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,840
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#745
1931
Peak year
1925
82 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,969
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Hortencia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Hortencia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hortencia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hortencia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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