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Porsha

#16,680 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Porsha has been given to 4,037 babies in the U.S. since 1963. In 2025 it ranked #16,680 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 296 recorded.

Babies named Porsha, 2025

1 in 663,000

Porsha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Porsha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Porsha means

Porsha is a given name.

The naming story behind Porsha

Wikidata records Porsha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q138026158, 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, 4,031 girls were recorded with the name Porsha between 1963 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 296 in 1989; its best national rank was #670 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,950 in 2020 to #16,680 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,830 in 2015 to #16,680 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Porsha between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,656 in 1989.

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 Porsha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,680
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Porsha 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 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Porsha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Porshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Porsha was born before 1990 — so the typical Porsha is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,031
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,637).

Is Porsha 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+270
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,850
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.7%
Peak was 1989 (296)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#670
1988

Spellings of Porsha

Porsha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 67.8% against Porsha's 2.6%.

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 Porsha is used

Across 1910–2025, Porsha was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 50,108 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 25,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 25,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 33,333
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Illinois1 in 33,333

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

Porsha around the world

Where Porsha 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Canada
    2007–2016
    #3,204
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #403
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Porsha

People whose public names include Porsha, 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.

Porsha in other languages

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

Portia

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

Porsha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,680
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 270
Best rank ever
#670
1988
Peak year
1989
296 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,031
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,656
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Porsha

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

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Names with a curve like Porsha

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

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Sibling names for Porsha

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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