Meaning not yet researched.
Hortencia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #745 in 1931.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #745 in 1931; #13,844 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hortencia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,844 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1931, at #745.
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Hortencia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #745 in 1931 · most girls in one year: 82 (1931).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Hortencia, making it the 13,844th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,358 places from #16,202 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 5 girls named Hortencia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #745, reached in 1931. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,093 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hortencia in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 7 babies. In all, 3,969 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 662 babies named Hortencia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 45 US girls were named Hortencia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ortencia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish language in South America. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ortencia (316).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Hortencia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,844 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,202 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,087 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,231 | — | — |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,484 | — | — |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,043 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,189 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,332 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,692 | — | — |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,600 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,013 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,890 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,557 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,472 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,417 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,531 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,261 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,477 | — | — |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,979 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,788 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,048 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,570 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,282 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,788 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,383 | — | — |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,585 | — | — |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,292 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,570 | — | — |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,250 | — | — |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,290 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,068 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,537 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,889 | — | — |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,028 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1981 | 37 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,272 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,629 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,192 | — | — |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,215 | — | — |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1959 | 50 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1957 | 38 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1956 | 46 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1953 | 67 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1952 | 66 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1951 | 67 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1950 | 71 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1949 | 67 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1948 | 76 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1947 | 60 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1946 | 60 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1944 | 60 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1943 | 55 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1942 | 69 | #946 | — | — |
| 1941 | 63 | #929 | — | — |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1939 | 72 | #814 | — | — |
| 1938 | 59 | #925 | — | — |
| 1937 | 69 | #826 | — | — |
| 1936 | 79 | #759 | — | — |
| 1935 | 63 | #871 | — | — |
| 1934 | 52 | #958 | — | — |
| 1933 | 49 | #990 | — | — |
| 1932 | 55 | #960 | — | — |
| 1931 | 82 | #745 | — | — |
| 1930 | 82 | #778 | — | — |
| 1929 | 64 | #900 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #908 | — | — |
| 1927 | 82 | #806 | — | — |
| 1926 | 67 | #914 | — | — |
| 1925 | 82 | #823 | — | — |
| 1924 | 61 | #980 | — | — |
| 1923 | 65 | #909 | — | — |
| 1922 | 64 | #920 | — | — |
| 1921 | 50 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1920 | 50 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1919 | 43 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,508 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).