Girl
Hortense
Hortense is a girl's name, a rare find in the registry, that hasn't appeared in recent U.S. birth records, last common back in the 1920s.
FrenchFrench, from Latin "hortus"
EtymologyMeaning "garden"
Births by decade
1900s
637
1910s
1,693
1920s
1,794
1930s
713
1940s
424
1950s
265
1960s
104
1970s
29
1980s
0
1990s
0
2000s
0
2010s
0
Peaked in the 1920s · 5,659 total U.S. births since 1900