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How popular is the name Porter?
Births per year, rank history and how many Porters are alive today.
Porter (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 4271st in 2024 and given to 4 babies. The name peaked in 2018, when 10 babies were given the name, the 2112th most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2024 figure is roughly 40% of its peak.
The Porter you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Porters born in England and Wales are between 6 and 15, and there are at least 110 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Porter - on average, only one in every 2,755 such rooms contains a Porter.
How many babies are named Porter each year?
Where does Porter rank among boys' names?
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 Porter most popular?
Porter peaked in 2018, when 10 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Porter?
At least 110 people named Porter born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Porter?
Most living Porters are between 6 and 15; the most common age is about 9.
Is Porter becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2018 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.