Meaning not yet researched.
Porsha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #670 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #670 in 1988; #16,684 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Porsha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#16,684 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #670.
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Porsha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #670 in 1988 · most girls in one year: 296 (1989).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Porsha, making it the 16,684th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #670, reached in 1988. The most girls given the name in a single year was 296, in 1989. For comparison, it was #8,835 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Porsha in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 5 babies. In all, 4,037 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,637 babies named Porsha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 67 US girls were named Porsha; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Porshay and Porshae are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Porshay (42), Porshae (30).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Porsha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,684 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,030 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,165 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,955 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,300 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,227 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,528 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,835 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,392 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,816 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,346 | — | — |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,356 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,309 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,297 | — | — |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,932 | — | — |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 2001 | 54 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 2000 | 85 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1996 | 115 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1994 | 191 | #974 | — | — |
| 1993 | 210 | #915 | — | — |
| 1992 | 235 | #850 | — | — |
| 1991 | 274 | #754 | — | — |
| 1990 | 285 | #733 | — | — |
| 1989 | 296 | #683 | 6 | #7,663 |
| 1988 | 288 | #670 | — | — |
| 1987 | 241 | #747 | — | — |
| 1986 | 196 | #850 | — | — |
| 1985 | 150 | #1,011 | — | — |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1981 | 72 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,368 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,734 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,342 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,361 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).