Portuguese Girl Names
European and Brazilian Portuguese share many names, with some differences in spelling and everyday use. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,547#65 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 291#911 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,601#63 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 318#855 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1963 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Mônica; in U.S. records from 1880. | 371#737 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 1979 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 441#653 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,482#205 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,746#177 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1914. | 6,591#19 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Aná; in U.S. records from 1880. | 1,276#245 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 836#366 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1903. | 961#317 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1950. | 3,118#78 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1947. | 1,009#302 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Lúcia; in U.S. records from 1880. | 3,012#83 | Up 77 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1906. | 128#1,622 | Down 327 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 769#405 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 1,192#261 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Letícia; in U.S. records from 1916. | 120#1,707 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Fátima; in U.S. records from 1919. | 931#330 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1881. | 82#2,254 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1894. | 120#1,704 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Luísa; in U.S. records from 1882. | 294#903 | Up 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1882. | 56#2,969 | Up 447 rank positions in five years | 1928 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1896. | 67#2,596 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1885. | 81#2,267 | Up 606 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1911. | 110#1,827 | Up 161 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 103#1,897 | Up 207 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1883. | 27#4,947 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 1927 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Vânia; in U.S. records from 1950. | 60#2,858 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1885. | 11#9,342 | Up 1,578 rank positions in five years | 1983 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1902. | —Unranked | — | 1925 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1907. | 22#5,588 | Up 3,462 rank positions in five years | 1920 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1911. | 17#6,721 | Up 1,511 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Vitória; in U.S. records from 1979. | 9#10,860 | Down 1,354 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 2014. | —Unranked | — | 2023 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.