girls:
6.3k births since 1880
#2085 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1880
#3416 (56th percentile)
The name Hortense is the #3,416 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,313 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 55.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,085 (63.5% percentile) for all time with 6,313 births since 1880.
Hortense has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Hortense is available in 95 out of the 97 years between 1880 and 1976. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Hortense reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 34.4% percentile (ranked #390) with 195 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 259 births per million (ranked 19.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hortense".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hortense. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.5% confident that Hortense is pronounced as hor-TEHNS, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HOR-tehns, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AO0 R T EH1 N S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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