girls:
850 births since 1917
#4866 (15th percentile)
boys:
19.8k births since 1880
#822 (82nd percentile)
overall:
20.7k births since 1880
#1782 (77th percentile)
The name Porter is the #1,782 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,657 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #822 (82.1% percentile) for all time with 19,807 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,866 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 850 births since 1917.
Porter has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls).
The name Porter has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.6% of babies named Porter were boys.
For boys, Porter reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 61.1% percentile (ranked #353) with 422 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 422 births per million (ranked 61.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Porter ranks #447 for boys (51.0% percentile) with 329 births per million, which is 78.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Porter reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #882) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 45 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2005, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Porter ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 88.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Porter".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Porter. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Porter is pronounced as POR-ter, which has 2 syllables.
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