Name: Hortense
Gender: Female
Usage: Hortense, of latin origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Hortense are in general originating from France, Portugal, United Kingdom.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Hortense is: Garden, Gardener.
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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Hortense is ranked on the 23,064th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.
We estimate that there are at least 8900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Hortense has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Hortense is a French feminine given name that comes from Latin meaning gardener. It may refer to:
Persons
- Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte
- Hortense Béwouda, sprinter from Cameroon
- Hortense Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin from 1646 to 1699, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England
- Hortense Ellis, reggae singer
- Hortense Calisher, author of In the Absence of Angels
- Hortense Schneider, French soprano from the Bordeaux region
- Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist best known for her studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood
- Hortense Parker, daughter of African-American inventor, industrialist and abolitionist, John Parker
- Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot (Antoinette-Cécile-Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot), French painter of genre scenes
- Hortense Rhéa, French actress
Fictional characters
- Mademoiselle Hortense, character in the novel Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
- Hortense Briggs, character in the novel An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
- Hortense Daigle, portrayed by Eileen Heckart in the The Bad Seed play and film
- Hortense McDuck, character from the Scrooge McDuck universe
- Hortense Toomey Campanati, character in the novel Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess
- Hortense, later known as Mist, character from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
Other
- Hortense, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Brantley County, Georgia, United States
- Hurricane Hortense, a 1996 category 4 Atlantic hurricane
French form of Latin Hortensia, the feminine version of the old Roman family name Hortensius. This is of uncertain origin, but may be derived from Latin hortus garden. The given name began to be used in the English-speaking world in the 19th century, but is not common today.
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