Given name
Ortensia
Ortensia is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “from the garden Ortensiah, Ortensea,-Ortenseah, Ortense,.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “from the garden Ortensiah, Ortensea,-Ortenseah, Ortense,.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1928. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ortensia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43
- 0 boys · 43 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 200 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ortensia’s family of names
Ortensia has a related form in Ortensee. Ortensia has a related form in Ortensey. Ortensia has a related form in Ortensi.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Ortenzeevariant
- Ortenzievariant
- Ortenzivariant
- Ortenseevariant
- Ortenseyvariant
- Ortensyvariant
- Ortensivariant
- Ortensievariant
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Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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