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Porfirio

#10,420 in 2025Boys' name

Purple dye

Porfirio has been given to 3,526 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #10,420 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Porfirio, 2025

1 in 474,000

Porfirio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Porfirio: meaning, origin, and history

Purple dye

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Porfirio means

Porfirio means “purple dye”.

Origin, language, and formation

Porfirio is used in Italian and Spanish.

Porfirio comes through Ancient Greek Πορφύριος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Porfirio is pronounced /porˈfi.rjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,526 boys were recorded with the name Porfirio between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1921; its best national rank was #921 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,559 in 2020 to #10,420 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,590 in 2015 to #10,420 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Porfirio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,420
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Porfirio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Porfirio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Porfirios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Porfirio was born before 1964 — so the typical Porfirio is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
11.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,269
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 11.6% of all recorded uses (409).

Is Porfirio 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
−1,609
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,861
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,830
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.54×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.5%
Peak was 1921 (56)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#921
1932

Where Porfirio is used

Across 1910–2025, Porfirio was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 22,351 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 9,091
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 14,286
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Porfirio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Porfirio around the world

Where Porfirio 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.

  • France
    1967–1974
    #1,702
    in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Porfirio

People whose public names include Porfirio, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Porfirio in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Porfirio. Linked forms have their own page here.

PorfiryBurfiraaPorfiriyPorphyrePorfiriosPorfiriuszPorphyrius

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Porfirio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,420
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,861
Best rank ever
#921
1932
Peak year
1921
56 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,526
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Porfirio

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

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Names with a curve like Porfirio

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Porfirio, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

FlorentinoFlorencioEusebioRefugioPrenticeModestoAnselmoCandelarioCelestinoSherwinFaustinoCipriano

Sibling names for Porfirio

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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