Reviving Names
Names with a clear peak long ago and a clear climb now — the shape that proves the hundred-year rule rather than merely illustrating it.
Every name here is placed by how its recent years in the birth records compare with its
earlier ones — so the list moves as the records do.
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Hortense Hortense is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of the garden," from hortus.Girl French 21,733 births
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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.