Hortense

or-TONSE

Latin

"of the garden"

Hortense Origin and Meaning

Variation of Ortensia

Hortense Rank in US Top 1000

# 950 in the US

Popularity of the name Hortense

• 1787 Nameberry 2026

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Famous People Named Hortense

• Hortense Eugénie Cécile de Beauharnais Queen consort of Louis Bonaparte of Holland; stepdaughter of Napoleon I
• Hortense Mancini Duchesse Mazarin, mistress of King Charles II of England
• Hortense Powdermaker American anthropologist
• Hortense Catherine Schneider French soprano
• Hortense Calisher American novelist
• Hortense Ellis Jamaican reggae singer
• Hortense Allart de Méritens aka Prudence de Saman L'Esbatx Italian,French feminist novelist
• Hortense Rhéa Belgian,French actress
• Hortense Diédhiou Senegalese Olympic judoka
• Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone Princess of Leuchtenberg; Princess of Hohenzollern,Hechingen; granddaughter of Empress Josephine of France

The name Hortense in Pop Culture

• Hortense a Spotted Owl in the "Guardians of Ga'hoole" series
• Hortense Joseph a character in "Small Island" by Andrea Levy
• Hortense McDuck character in the "Scrooge McDuck" comics
• Hortense Sage character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Hortense "Horty" Hathaway a 1920s showgirl in the movie "Bloodhounds of Broadway"

International Variations of the name Hortense

• Ortensia Italian