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How popular is “Porter” in the USA?

Number of people named “Porter” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Porter” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Porter” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Porter” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Porter” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Porter” by birth year

This chart shows how “Porter” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 38 0.000188601 38 -100%
1881 32 0.000166072 32 -100%
1882 28 0.000126392 28 -100%
1883 23 0.000106017 23 -100%
1884 22 0.000090364 22 -100%
1885 36 0.000149468 36 -100%
1886 24 0.000094001 24 -100%
1887 14 0.00005659 14 -100%
1888 37 0.00012355 37 -100%
1889 20 0.000069217 20 -100%
1890 26 0.000086264 26 -100%
1891 20 0.000069766 20 -100%
1892 35 0.000104673 35 -100%
1893 25 0.00007687 25 -100%
1894 26 0.000076766 26 -100%
1895 25 0.000071221 25 -100%
1896 26 0.000072731 26 -100%
1897 27 0.000077819 27 -100%
1898 34 0.000089132 34 -100%
1899 25 0.000073695 25 -100%
1900 25 0.000055524 25 -100%
1901 25 0.000072294 25 -100%
1902 33 0.00008533 33 -100%
1903 22 0.000057712 22 -100%
1904 27 0.000066917 27 -100%
1905 35 0.000082562 35 -100%
1906 24 0.000056016 24 -100%
1907 29 0.000062313 29 -100%
1908 31 0.00006344 31 -100%
1909 26 0.000050858 26 -100%
1910 40 0.000067715 40 -100%
1911 44 0.000068293 44 -100%
1912 68 0.000068822 68 -100%
1913 76 0.000066836 76 -100%
1914 97 0.000068486 97 -100%
1915 103 0.00005621 103 -100%
1916 131 0.000067721 131 -100%
1917 115 0.000057307 7 108 -88%
1918 115 0.000052968 115 -100%
1919 114 0.000054022 114 -100%
1920 120 0.000053035 120 -100%
1921 119 0.000050974 119 -100%
1922 101 0.000044121 101 -100%
1923 88 0.00003822 88 -100%
1924 104 0.000043668 104 -100%
1925 102 0.000043715 102 -100%
1926 76 0.000033102 76 -100%
1927 81 0.000034923 81 -100%
1928 107 0.000047325 107 -100%
1929 84 0.000038318 84 -100%
1930 78 0.000035083 78 -100%
1931 74 0.000035165 74 -100%
1932 74 0.00003505 74 -100%
1933 69 0.00003451 69 -100%
1934 59 0.000028409 59 -100%
1935 51 0.000024403 51 -100%
1936 58 0.000027917 58 -100%
1937 65 0.000030507 65 -100%
1938 70 0.000031637 70 -100%
1939 57 0.000025869 57 -100%
1940 61 0.000026491 61 -100%
1941 57 0.000023395 57 -100%
1942 73 0.000026722 73 -100%
1943 66 0.000023383 66 -100%
1944 42 0.000015613 42 -100%
1945 40 0.000015078 40 -100%
1946 53 0.000016587 53 -100%
1947 59 0.000016378 59 -100%
1948 46 0.000013324 46 -100%
1949 62 0.000017792 62 -100%
1950 54 0.000015414 54 -100%
1951 48 0.00001303 48 -100%
1952 50 0.000013165 50 -100%
1953 44 0.000011418 44 -100%
1954 43 0.000010802 43 -100%
1955 61 0.000015193 61 -100%
1956 53 0.000012855 53 -100%
1957 46 0.000010947 46 -100%
1958 38 0.000009192 38 -100%
1959 36 0.000008658 36 -100%
1960 29 0.000006982 29 -100%
1961 36 0.000008691 36 -100%
1962 27 0.000006691 27 -100%
1963 42 0.000010611 42 -100%
1964 43 0.000011061 6 37 -72%
1965 37 0.000010206 37 -100%
1966 38 0.000010933 38 -100%
1967 22 0.00000648 22 -100%
1968 31 0.000009176 31 -100%
1969 34 0.000009783 34 -100%
1970 30 0.000008318 30 -100%
1971 33 0.000009614 33 -100%
1972 31 0.000009863 31 -100%
1973 21 0.000006961 21 -100%
1974 21 0.000006908 21 -100%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 -100%
1976 16 0.000005273 16 -100%
1977 32 0.000010074 32 -100%
1978 19 0.000005986 19 -100%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 -100%
1980 19 0.000005516 19 -100%
1981 22 0.00000636 22 -100%
1982 27 0.000007697 27 -100%
1983 31 0.000008951 31 -100%
1984 24 0.000006879 24 -100%
1985 31 0.000008686 31 -100%
1986 26 0.000007309 26 -100%
1987 25 0.000006934 25 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 25 -100%
1989 27 0.000007023 27 -100%
1990 36 0.000009108 36 -100%
1991 37 0.000009499 37 -100%
1992 37 0.000009632 37 -100%
1993 49 0.000012996 49 -100%
1994 73 0.000019636 7 66 -81%
1995 72 0.000019661 7 65 -81%
1996 76 0.000020838 5 71 -87%
1997 80 0.000022064 80 -100%
1998 109 0.000029634 6 103 -89%
1999 182 0.000049271 6 176 -93%
2000 208 0.000055028 7 201 -93%
2001 241 0.00006438 16 225 -87%
2002 276 0.000073831 11 265 -92%
2003 320 0.000084159 6 314 -96%
2004 344 0.000090031 8 336 -95%
2005 420 0.000109237 15 405 -93%
2006 565 0.000142814 12 553 -96%
2007 579 0.000144834 13 566 -96%
2008 594 0.000151119 20 574 -93%
2009 592 0.000154967 14 578 -95%
2010 619 0.00016749 17 602 -95%
2011 629 0.000171962 27 602 -91%
2012 677 0.000185106 33 644 -90%
2013 806 0.000221084 28 778 -93%
2014 897 0.000242015 40 857 -91%
2015 921 0.000248858 59 862 -87%
2016 805 0.000219424 56 749 -86%
2017 848 0.000237124 46 802 -89%
2018 797 0.000226685 48 749 -88%
2019 667 0.000192167 55 612 -84%
2020 765 0.000229002 58 707 -85%
2021 764 0.000225505 66 698 -83%
2022 673 0.000198928 81 592 -76%
2023 674 0.000203552 70 604 -79%
2024 537 0.000161334 74 463 -72%

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