Comments for the name Hortense

A character in the film Secrets & Lies is called Hortense, that was the first time I heard the name. In one of my name-books it just says "No!" as a coment on it.

This is a horrid name. Who would EVER impose such a name on a child?

Pronounced HOR-tens in English, which probably accounts for its unpopularity. (Surely you've heard that dreadful old joke.)

Hortense Powdermaker, American anthropologist.

Hortense Calisher, American writer.

Awful, heinous, ugly. I'm sorry - it is!

Hortense sounds like a name of a troll who lives under a bridge in some fantasy land or something you'd name a cow. It's pretty horrible.

The name is beautiful if pronounced the correct way, or-TAWNS, not HOR TENSE.

I'm probably one of the few people who likes this name. I think it's beautiful pronounced "or-TAWNS." To me, it brings the image of a strong woman.

In the children's book series "Guardians of Ga'Hoole," a spotted owl's name is Hortense. She becomes a hero, and many owlets from the region she was born in are named after her (including some males), even though she hated her name.

I don't care how this name is pronounced. I think it's just plain ugly!

Hortense Beauharnais was Josephine's daughter and hence Napoleon's stepdaughter. She became queen of Holland.

For people who don't know about Josephine she was a creole from the island of Martinique who went to France to marry Hortense's father who died in the revolution. Josephine was crowned Empress by her 2nd husband Napoleon. Now my impression is it doesn't sound nice but when you look at the meaning it sounds ok.

I think "or-tawns" sounds like a Tolkien monster. Or Hortense is, well, quite difficult to like.

The only reason I sort of like this name is because of the Guardians of Ga'hoole character.

Even if the pronunciation of this name is pretty, the spelling just kills it. I think a good alternative is Ortannes.

Whore tense. Enough said.

Hortense McDuck, Scrooge McDuck's youngest sister, mother of Donald Duck, and grandmother of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. Scrooge named a temperamental mare after her in Don Rosa's series, "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck."

The French pronunciation is quite nice.