How Many People Are Named Hortense?
people named Hortense are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 443,300 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,313 babies named Hortense in Social Security records from 1880 to 1976, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
229 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
French form of HORTENSIA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Hortense in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hortense alive today is about 77 years old, and 92% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 70 and 86 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hortense first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1919, to 229 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1976.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 1976
🏆 Rank History
Hortense has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #378, in 1894 and 1903.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #378 (1894 and 1903) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #521 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hortense alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hortense were born in Texas than in any other state: about 127 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hortense was given 4.4 times as often in Texas, 3.3 times in Florida and 2.6 times in Virginia.
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