Hortense

Where Hortense comes from

From the French form of the Latin Hortēnsia, feminine form of Hortēnsius (“name of a Roman gens”), probably derived from hortēnsis (“having to do with gardens”) on the basis that the first to bear the name was a gardener.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hortense
  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1646
    Hortense Mancini born
    Mistress of Charles II of England
  2. 1783
    Hortense de Beauharnais born
    queen consort of the Netherlands
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1903
    Peak, #376
    72 babies named Hortense — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,455.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes
  • Hortense de Beauharnais · queen consort of the Netherlands, 1783–1837
  • Hortense Mancini · Mistress of Charles II of England, 1646–1699
  • Hortense Schneider · singer, 1833–1920
  • Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot · French painter, 1784–1845
  • Hortense Allart · French-Italian writer and feminist, 1801–1879

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.