Porchia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Porchia has been given to 528 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Porchia, 2000
1 in 630,000
Porchia over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Porchia?
Porchia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 630,000
- 6 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 303,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 436,510 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Porchia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 436,510 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Porchia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Porchias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Porchia was born before 1989 — so the typical Porchia is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 49.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 528
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 49.8% of all recorded uses (263).
Is Porchia rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (52)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Porchia
Porchia is not the most common spelling — Portia is, with 56.3% against Porchia's 2.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Porchia is used
Across 1910–2025, Porchia was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 586,741 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Mississippi1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Porchia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Porchia around the world
Where Porchia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2013#4,739in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Porchia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Porchia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Porchia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.