Hortensia Name Meaning, Origins & Popularity

Hortensia Forename

13,866^th

Most Common

name in the World

Approximately 70,008 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:

Mexico

Highest density in:

Chile

Hortensia Forename Definition:

A female name. Latin f. from the name of the Hortensian gens. The Italian Ortensia was taken to France by Ortensia Mancini, niece of Mazarin, and was acclimatized there as Hortense. From France it has occasionally been borrowed in England.

Hortensia Forename Distribution

Place	Gender	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Mexico	100%	21,211	1:5,853	643
Spain	100%	8,454	1:5,504	514
Argentina	100%	7,210	1:5,932	509
Chile	100%	6,683	1:2,635	353
Madagascar	100%	5,139	1:4,598	948
United States	100%	4,957	1:73,136	3,624
Cuba	-	3,307	1:3,479	456
Colombia	100%	2,431	1:19,654	1,375
Venezuela	100%	1,817	1:16,622	1,508
Costa Rica	100%	1,205	1:3,957	553
Peru	100%	905	1:35,129	2,146
Dominican Republic	-	883	1:11,813	1,317
Guatemala	99%	749	1:21,507	1,225
El Salvador	-	583	1:10,878	781
Brazil	100%	485	1:441,724	15,155
Uruguay	100%	455	1:7,533	634
Tanzania	100%	418	1:126,288	6,410
Ecuador	-	397	1:44,652	1,672
Namibia	-	342	1:7,030	948
Bolivia	100%	321	1:33,026	1,738
Belgium	100%	256	1:44,883	2,321
Panama	100%	214	1:18,255	1,879
Indonesia	100%	166	1:1,553,998	85,435
Portugal	-	138	1:75,441	2,229
France	100%	115	1:578,003	5,833
Romania	100%	104	1:192,807	6,806
DR Congo	100%	103	1:716,773	23,137
Congo	94%	99	1:50,598	3,820
Paraguay	100%	94	1:76,987	2,250
Honduras	100%	92	1:95,842	3,156
Cameroon	100%	78	1:277,058	10,672
Switzerland	100%	72	1:114,076	3,405
Nicaragua	100%	67	1:89,826	3,282
Puerto Rico	-	65	1:54,620	1,450
Germany	100%	58	1:1,666,860	10,489
England	96%	50	1:1,112,058	17,748
Canada	100%	31	1:1,068,818	20,809
Andorra	-	22	1:3,768	371
Jamaica	-	22	1:131,056	5,047
Netherlands	94%	18	1:939,005	16,684
Central African Republic	-	16	1:282,212	391
Mozambique	-	16	1:1,702,710	1,919
Philippines	100%	16	1:6,625,592	105,856
Sweden	100%	14	1:704,136	15,982
New Caledonia	100%	13	1:20,782	1,589
Ivory Coast	100%	12	1:1,922,994	45,079
Austria	100%	11	1:774,018	6,072
Albania	100%	9	1:338,508	14,218
South Africa	100%	8	1:6,816,581	127,931
Italy	100%	7	1:8,723,156	29,138
India	100%	5	1:242,975,594	2,326,743
Nigeria	100%	5	1:35,512,872	242,191
Benin	100%	5	1:2,115,169	40,564
Israel	100%	4	1:2,100,730	20,870
Norway	-	4	1:1,283,082	16,224
Thailand	100%	4	1:17,516,453	200,944
Zambia	-	3	1:5,284,931	37,895
Denmark	-	3	1:1,883,166	17,701
Saint Lucia	100%	2	1:88,908	5,280
Burkina Faso	100%	2	1:9,189,734	69,235
Australia	-	2	1:6,828,811	37,569
Iran	-	2	1:39,248,434	50,459
Japan	-	2	1:63,993,028	72,606
Kenya	-	2	1:23,153,555	56,680
Luxembourg	-	2	1:282,024	3,520
Wales	100%	1	1:3,094,309	16,222
Vietnam	-	1	1:92,623,113	10,484
Antigua and Barbuda	-	1	1:99,395	3,544
Ireland	-	1	1:4,643,519	13,375
Vanuatu	-	1	1:261,792	1,604
United States Virgin Islands	-	1	1:109,747	4,493
Barbados	-	1	1:289,789	3,893
Uganda	100%	1	1:40,956,920	131,348
Trinidad and Tobago	-	1	1:1,361,419	34,512
Belize	-	1	1:354,309	7,663
Morocco	-	1	1:34,348,636	18,260
Taiwan	-	1	1:23,769,682	193,280
Estonia	100%	1	1:1,315,380	8,883
Suriname	-	1	1:552,811	5,457
French Polynesia	-	1	1:277,902	3,605
Greece	-	1	1:10,934,548	22,228
Solomon Islands	-	1	1:580,957	8,641
Scotland	100%	1	1:5,350,366	24,769
São Tomé and Príncipe	100%	1	1:191,997	5,295
Grenada	100%	1	1:108,125	4,208
Iceland	-	1	1:366,017	7,938
Jersey	-	1	1:99,980	2,122
Lebanon	100%	1	1:5,627,571	19,299

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The alternate forms: Hortênsia (93), Hortènsia (5), Horténsia (2) & Hortensìa (1) are calculated separately.

Hortensia (178) may also be a surname.

Hortensia Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? ^{meaning and history}

— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

The f. of the obsolete Hortensius, ‘a gardener,’ it is now verging on the obsolescent. The Latin originals were members of the ancient and honourable gens (clan) Hortensia.

— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge

A Latin name, meaning: At home in a garden.

— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead

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Hortensia Forename Popularity

Hortensia Demographics

Hortensia Political Affiliation
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Sample size: 652 (2014)

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Phonetically Similar Names

Forename	Similarity	Worldwide Incidence	Prevalency
Hortênsia	96	93	/
Hortènsia	96	5	/
Horténsia	96	2	/
Hortensìa	96	1	/
Horthensia	95	8	/
Hortesnsia	95	5	/
Hortenssia	95	4	/
Hortenscia	95	2	/
Hjortensia	95	1	/
Hortensias	95	1	/
Hortennsia	95	1	/
Ortensia	94	1,905	/
Hortensa	94	41	/
Hortnsia	94	2	/
Hortenzia	89	790	/
Hortensio	89	751	/
Hartensia	89	21	/
Hortensja	89	11	/
Orthensia	89	6	/
Hortensea	89	5	/
Hertensia	89	4	/
Hortensai	89	4	/
Hortensaa	89	3	/
Oortensia	89	3	/
Hurtensia	89	2	/
Hortinsia	89	2	/
Gortensia	89	1	/
Ortenscia	89	1	/
Hortemsia	89	1	/
Hortengia	89	1	/
Hortensha	89	1	/
Hortenssa	89	1	/
Ortensa	88	60	/
Hortenchia	84	2	/
Horthensya	84	1	/
Ortenzia	82	319	/
Ortensio	82	301	/
Hortenca	82	66	/
Artensia	82	44	/
Ortensha	82	21	/
Hortenza	82	11	/
Ortensya	82	5	/
Ortensja	82	3	/
Hartensa	82	3	/
Hortença	82	2	/
Hortenso	82	2	/
Ortinsia	82	2	/
Ortençia	82	1	/
Orthensa	82	1	/
Hortinsa	82	1	/
Hortência	78	2,308	/
Hortencya	78	22	/
Hortencea	78	6	/
Hortênsio	78	5	/
Gortenzia	78	3	/
Hortenzio	78	2	/
Hortienza	78	2	/
Hortênçia	78	1	/
Horténzia	78	1	/
Hortinzia	78	1	/
Hortensey	78	1	/
Hortencha	78	1	/
Hortencaa	78	1	/
Ortenca	75	175	/
Ortenza	75	32	/
Artensa	75	15	/
Ortenso	75	6	/
Ortinsa	75	1	/
Horthencya	74	3	/
Ortenzio	71	153	/
Artemsia	71	9	/
Hortenco	71	8	/
Artensio	71	7	/
Ortencea	71	6	/
Artenzia	71	5	/
Ortência	71	4	/
Ortencja	71	2	/
Artinsia	71	2	/
Artensay	71	1	/
Ertinsia	71	1	/
Ortenšio	71	1	/
Hortenzo	71	1	/
Ortencya	71	1	/
Hortêncio	67	31	/
Hortincea	67	1	/
Gartenzia	67	1	/

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