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Porcia

Girls' name

Feminine form of Porcius

Porcia has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1990, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Porcia, 1996

1 in 608,000

Porcia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Porcia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Porcius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Porcia means

Porcia is a feminine form of Porcius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Porcia is used in Ancient Roman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Porcius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 girls were recorded with the name Porcia between 1968 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1990; its best national rank was #5,216 in 1990.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Porcia?

Porcia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,209 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Porcia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 421,209 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Porcia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Porcias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Porcia was born before 1987 — so the typical Porcia is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
167
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 50.3% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Porcia 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 1990 (18)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,216
1990

Spellings of Porcia

Porcia is not the most common spelling — Marcia is, with 82.9% against Porcia's 0.10%.

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.

Porcia around the world

Where Porcia 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 & Wales
    1996–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1957–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Porcia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,216
1990
Peak year
1990
18 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
167
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Porcia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Porcia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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