Hortencia
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning gardener; a form of Hortensia.
Babies a year
9
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Hortencia by the numbers
Hortencia was given to 9 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 82 babies in 1925, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Hortencia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Hortensegardener, of the garden
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Hortencia, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Hortencia
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