Hortensia

Where Hortensia comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Hortensia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hortensia
  • Spanish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1659
    Hortensia von Moos born
    Swiss writer
  2. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1914
    Hortensia Bussi born
    wife of Chilean President Salvador Allende
  4. 1928
    Peak, #902
    66 babies named Hortensia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,263.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Hortense.
Namesakes
  • Hortensia Bussi · wife of Chilean President Salvador Allende, 1914–2009
  • Hortensia von Moos · Swiss writer, 1659–1715
  • Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu · Romanian writer, 1876–1955
  • Hortensia Herrero Chacón · Spanish businesswoman and philanthropist, born 1950
  • Hortensia Fussy · Austrian sculptor, born 1954

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.