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Porsche

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Porsche has been given to 2,115 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1987, with 182 recorded.

Babies named Porsche, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Porsche: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Porsche means

Porsche is a given name.

The naming story behind Porsche

Wikidata records Porsche as a given name. The entity identifier is Q102255156, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,115 girls were recorded with the name Porsche between 1971 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 182 in 1987; its best national rank was #916 in 1987.

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 Porsche?

Porsche had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Porsche 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Porsche. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Porsches were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Porsche was born before 1989 — so the typical Porsche is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,115
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (988).

Is Porsche 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 1987 (182)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#916
1987

Spellings of Porsche

Porsche is not the most common spelling — Porsha is, with 43.7% against Porsche's 22.9%.

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 Porsche is used

Across 1910–2025, Porsche was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 114,518 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 50,000
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 50,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

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. Porsche has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Porsche around the world

Where Porsche 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
    1996–2020
    #3,899
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1991–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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.

Porsche 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
#916
1987
Peak year
1987
182 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Porsche

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

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Names with a curve like Porsche

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

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Sibling names for Porsche

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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