Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Hortense

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Hortense
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1919

Peak rank proxy

229

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19192024

Peak year

1919

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

6,313

Hortense has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1919, when 229 girls were named Hortense.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 6,313 Americans have been named Hortense and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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