Hortense as a girl name is too masculine-sounding for me. I prefer the spelling Hortence. It looks a bit more feminine, and at least the word tense is no longer in it.
I'm sorry, but I've never liked it. Not the Hor or the Tense portion.
But Hor is probably the worst part.
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