Portia
Portia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 590th, in 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1989259 births
- Best rank
- #590in 1949
- Since 1882
- 10,613people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,613 girls have been named Portia in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 259 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1980s alone account for 18%. It has spent 39 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Portia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 18 | |
| 1890s | 52 | |
| 1900s | 105 | |
| 1910s | 283 | |
| 1920s | 373 | |
| 1930s | 272 | |
| 1940s | 1,327 | |
| 1950s | 1,545 | |
| 1960s | 1,324 | |
| 1970s | 1,056 | |
| 1980s | 1,864 | |
| 1990s | 1,190 | |
| 2000s | 712 | |
| 2010s | 421 | |
| 2020s | 71 |
In 1989, its biggest year
Portia was the 758th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1989 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1989.
Names that rose and fell with Portia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elviapeak 1991
- Jannettpeak 1991
- Roxannapeak 1988
- Priscillapeak 1942
- Claudiapeak 1952
- Ellynpeak 1991
- Margaritapeak 1957
- Carlynpeak 1992
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.