Hortense
A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning gardener, of the garden.
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US popularity
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outside the top 1000
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outside the ONS list
Hortense by the numbers
Its American peak was 229 babies in 1919, making it a 1910s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Hortense. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Hortenciagardener; a form of Hortensia9 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Hortense, 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 Hortense
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