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How popular is the name Portia?
Births per year, rank history and how many Portias are alive today.
Portia (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 5892nd in 2024 and given to 3 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 32 babies were given the name, the 840th most popular that year. It has declined since 2004; the 2024 figure is roughly 9% of its peak. Portia is one spelling of a name also recorded as Porsche and Porsha; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Portia you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old - or else around 26: the name has two living generations. Half of all Portias born in England and Wales are between 13 and 29, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Portia - on average, only one in every 287 such rooms contains a Portia.
How many babies are named Portia each year?
Includes all spellings: Portia, Porsche, Porsha. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Portia spelling rank?
Where does the Porsche spelling rank?
Where does the Porsha spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Portia most popular?
Portia peaked in 2013, when 58 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Portia?
At least 1,100 people named Portia in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Portia?
Most living Portias are between 13 and 29; the most common age is about 12. There is a second cluster around 26.
Is Portia becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2013 peak.