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Hortensia

Girls' name

Possibly having to do with gardens, through Hortense

Hortensia has been given to 1,794 babies in the U.S. since 1896. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Hortensia, 1995

1 in 732,000

Hortensia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hortensia: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly having to do with gardens, through Hortense

Spanish

What Hortensia means

Hortensia belongs to the name family reached through Hortensia → Hortense. Its meaning is “having to do with gardens”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hortensia is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Hortensia comes through Spanish Hortensia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hortense and Hortēnsius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Hortensia is pronounced /oɾˈtensja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,794 girls were recorded with the name Hortensia between 1896 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1928; its best national rank was #909 in 1928.

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.

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How common is Hortensia?

Hortensia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1995
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,660,254 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1995
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hortensia 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 1995 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 507,420 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hortensia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hortensias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hortensia was born before 1938 — so the typical Hortensia is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
617
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1920s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (443).

Is Hortensia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (66)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#909
1928

Spellings of Hortensia

Hortensia is not the most common spelling — Hortense is, with 52.3% against Hortensia's 14.9%.

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 Hortensia is used

Across 1910–2025, Hortensia was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 35,819 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 16,667
  2. 2Texas1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Hortensia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hortensia around the world

Where Hortensia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1900–2024
    #6,491
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hortensia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#909
1928
Peak year
1928
66 that year
First recorded
1896
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
1,794
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hortensia

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

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Sibling names for Hortensia

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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