Porsha

Where Porsha comes from

Porsha hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #6,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Porsha Williams Guobadia born
    American television personality
  3. 1988
    Porsha Phillips born
    American professional women's basketball player
  4. 1988
    Peak, #669
    288 babies named Porsha — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,286.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Porsha Williams Guobadia · American television personality, born 1981
  • Porsha Phillips · American professional women's basketball player, born 1988
  • Porsha Stubbs-Smith · politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.