Portia
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #5,615
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1949 · 199 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 10,627since 1882
Portia over time
Rank among girls' names. Portia has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,734 | 29 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,005 | 55 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,169 | 52 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,695 | 65 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | — | |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,553 | 67 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,004 | 87 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 100 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,817 | 95 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,731 | 49 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,994 | 70 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,776 | 81 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,487 | 106 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,180 | 147 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,076 | 168 | — | |
| 1991 | #962 | 196 | — | |
| 1990 | #841 | 234 | — | |
| 1989 | #757 | 259 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #734 | 255 | — | |
| 1987 | #762 | 236 | — | |
| 1986 | #746 | 234 | — | |
| 1985 | #925 | 171 | — | |
| 1984 | #890 | 168 | — | |
| 1983 | #959 | 152 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,107 | 127 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,079 | 130 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,068 | 132 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,161 | 114 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,104 | 118 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,247 | 96 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,355 | 79 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,381 | 76 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,169 | 96 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,001 | 118 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,006 | 117 | — | |
| 1971 | #984 | 128 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,069 | 114 | — | |
| 1969 | #990 | 119 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,196 | 82 | — | |
| 1967 | #902 | 129 | — | |
| 1966 | #913 | 122 | — | |
| 1965 | #803 | 152 | — | |
| 1964 | #920 | 129 | — | |
| 1963 | #865 | 146 | — | |
| 1962 | #904 | 136 | — | |
| 1961 | #819 | 165 | — | |
| 1960 | #862 | 144 | — | |
| 1959 | #982 | 116 | — | |
| 1958 | #906 | 128 | — | |
| 1957 | #827 | 150 | — | |
| 1956 | #861 | 134 | — | |
| 1955 | #727 | 170 | — | |
| 1954 | #709 | 169 | — | |
| 1953 | #749 | 148 | — | |
| 1952 | #741 | 143 | — | |
| 1951 | #612 | 197 | — | |
| 1950 | #606 | 190 | — | |
| 1949 | #587 | 199 | — | |
| 1948 | #639 | 169 | — | |
| 1947 | #687 | 150 | — | |
| 1946 | #632 | 155 | — | |
| 1945 | #696 | 115 | — | |
| 1944 | #747 | 104 | — | |
| 1943 | #603 | 156 | — | |
| 1942 | #628 | 143 | — | |
| 1941 | #756 | 89 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,046 | 47 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,638 | 22 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,288 | 32 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,355 | 29 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,296 | 31 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,483 | 25 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,440 | 26 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,906 | 17 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,488 | 26 | — | |
| 1931 | #1,421 | 27 | — | |
| 1930 | #1,232 | 37 | — | |
| 1929 | #1,257 | 35 | — | |
| 1928 | #1,366 | 32 | — | |
| 1927 | #1,303 | 37 | — | |
| 1926 | #1,115 | 46 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,409 | 33 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,440 | 33 | — | |
| 1923 | #1,283 | 37 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,464 | 31 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,148 | 44 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,119 | 45 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,270 | 36 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,102 | 44 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,183 | 37 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,246 | 33 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,173 | 34 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,175 | 27 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,176 | 22 | — | |
| 1912 | #1,178 | 20 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,241 | 14 | — | |
| 1910 | #1,110 | 16 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,357 | 10 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,206 | 11 | — | |
| 1906 | #1,416 | 8 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,238 | 10 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,364 | 8 | — | |
| 1903 | #1,440 | 7 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,133 | 10 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,339 | 7 | — | |
| 1900 | #705 | 26 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,181 | 8 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,009 | 12 | — | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | #999 | 11 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,299 | 7 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,061 | 9 | — | |
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 | — | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | #937 | 7 | — | |
| 1886 | #993 | 6 | — | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | #908 | 5 | — | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Portia! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1885, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Portia
- 1,529 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #7,491)
- 1,824 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #7,491)
- 3,841 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 476 spots in 1900 (#1,181 → #705)
- Biggest drop: 634 spots in 1901 (#705 → #1,339)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1949 at #587 (199 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 43 yrs · run 1941–1967
- Highest: 1 in 6,984 girls born in 1988 were named Portia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #587 in 1949, was only 1 in 8,597 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.5% of all girls named Portia (1,864) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | #908 (1882) | #946 |
| 1890s | 52 | #999 (1896) | #1,148 |
| 1900s | 105 | #705 (1900) | #1,281 |
| 1910s | 283 | #1,102 (1918) | #1,185 |
| 1920s | 373 | #1,115 (1926) | #1,290 |
| 1930s | 272 | #1,232 (1930) | #1,455 |
| 1940s | 1,327 | #587 (1949) | #702 |
| 1950s | 1,545 | #606 (1950) | #772 |
| 1960s | 1,324 | #803 (1965) | #917 |
| 1970s | 1,056 | #984 (1971) | #1,148 |
| 1980s | 1,864 | #734 (1988) | #903 |
| 1990s | 1,190 | #841 (1990) | #1,625 |
| 2000s | 712 | #1,777 (2001) | #2,538 |
| 2010s | 421 | #2,695 (2011) | #3,929 |
| 2020s | 85 | #5,667 (2020) | #8,301 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Portia in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 7,118 of them was named Portia, which outranked 94.8% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 250,116 of them was named Portia, which outranked 39.2% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).