Uncommon Portuguese Girl Names
European and Brazilian Portuguese share many names, with some differences in spelling and everyday use. Every name shown is outside the latest U.S. Top 1000 for the sex displayed, including names without a published count that year. 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 as Patrícia; in U.S. records from 1884. | 167#1,336 | Down 219 rank positions in five years | 1951 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1904. | 188#1,210 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 1947 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1880. | 174#1,287 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 1949 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 92#2,056 | Up 515 rank positions in five years | 1957 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as América; in U.S. records from 1880. | 117#1,734 | Down 102 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Nathália; in U.S. records from 1899. | 162#1,365 | Down 374 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1913. | 9#10,801 | Up 6,388 rank positions in five years | 1929 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Inês; in U.S. records from 1883. | 213#1,111 | Up 662 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1950. | 28#4,794 | Down 1,496 rank positions in five years | 1980 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1934. | 58#2,912 | Down 460 rank positions in five years | 2005 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1964. | 84#2,211 | Down 212 rank positions in five years | 2002 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1991. | 69#2,555 | Down 942 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1922. | 47#3,312 | Down 1,189 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1961. | 14#7,640 | Down 2,418 rank positions in five years | 1992 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1888. | 8#11,203 | Up 2,706 rank positions in five years | 1956 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese as Cássia; in U.S. records from 1954. | 94#2,022 | Up 643 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1953. | 7#12,269 | Down 2,514 rank positions in five years | 1989 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1900. | 34#4,244 | Up 3,222 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1989. | 16#6,855 | Down 987 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1995. | 14#7,638 | Down 2,959 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1900. | —Unranked | — | 1981 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1909. | 72#2,476 | Up 1,506 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1971. | 9#10,373 | Down 2,255 rank positions in five years | 2001 | ||
Recorded in Portuguese; in U.S. records from 1911. | —Unranked | — | 1924 |
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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.