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How popular is “Portia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Portia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Portia” 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 “Portia” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Portia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Portia” 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
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1887 7 0.000028295 7 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1894 9 0.000026573 9 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 100%
1898 12 0.000031458 12 100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 100%
1900 26 0.000057745 26 100%
1901 7 0.000020242 7 100%
1902 10 0.000025858 10 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 100%
1906 8 0.000018672 8 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1910 16 0.000027086 16 100%
1911 14 0.00002173 14 100%
1912 20 0.000020242 20 100%
1913 22 0.000019347 22 100%
1914 27 0.000019063 27 100%
1915 34 0.000018555 34 100%
1916 33 0.000017059 33 100%
1917 37 0.000018438 37 100%
1918 44 0.000020266 44 100%
1919 36 0.00001706 36 100%
1920 45 0.000019888 45 100%
1921 44 0.000018848 44 100%
1922 31 0.000013542 31 100%
1923 37 0.00001607 37 100%
1924 33 0.000013856 33 100%
1925 33 0.000014143 33 100%
1926 46 0.000020036 46 100%
1927 37 0.000015953 37 100%
1928 32 0.000014153 32 100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 100%
1930 37 0.000016642 37 100%
1931 27 0.00001283 27 100%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 100%
1933 17 0.000008502 17 100%
1934 26 0.000012519 26 100%
1935 25 0.000011962 25 100%
1936 31 0.000014921 31 100%
1937 29 0.000013611 29 100%
1938 32 0.000014463 32 100%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 100%
1940 47 0.000020411 47 100%
1941 89 0.000036529 89 100%
1942 143 0.000052346 143 100%
1943 156 0.000055269 156 100%
1944 104 0.000038661 104 100%
1945 115 0.000043349 115 100%
1946 155 0.000048509 155 100%
1947 150 0.00004164 150 100%
1948 169 0.00004895 169 100%
1949 199 0.000057106 199 100%
1950 190 0.000054234 190 100%
1951 197 0.000053478 197 100%
1952 143 0.000037651 143 100%
1953 148 0.000038405 148 100%
1954 169 0.000042455 169 100%
1955 170 0.00004234 170 100%
1956 134 0.0000325 134 100%
1957 150 0.000035696 150 100%
1958 128 0.000030963 128 100%
1959 116 0.000027898 116 100%
1960 144 0.000034667 144 100%
1961 165 0.000039833 165 100%
1962 136 0.000033702 136 100%
1963 146 0.000036885 146 100%
1964 129 0.000033182 129 100%
1965 152 0.000041926 152 100%
1966 122 0.000035101 122 100%
1967 129 0.000037998 129 100%
1968 82 0.000024272 82 100%
1969 119 0.000034241 119 100%
1970 114 0.000031609 114 100%
1971 128 0.000037292 128 100%
1972 117 0.000037226 117 100%
1973 118 0.000039113 118 100%
1974 96 0.000031579 96 100%
1975 76 0.000025171 76 100%
1976 79 0.000026036 79 100%
1977 96 0.000030222 96 100%
1978 118 0.000037179 118 100%
1979 114 0.000034265 114 100%
1980 132 0.000038322 132 100%
1981 130 0.000037579 130 100%
1982 127 0.000036203 127 100%
1983 152 0.000043888 152 100%
1984 168 0.000048155 168 100%
1985 171 0.000047911 171 100%
1986 234 0.000065784 234 100%
1987 236 0.000065453 236 100%
1988 255 0.000069011 255 100%
1989 267 0.000069451 259 8 94%
1990 234 0.000059203 234 100%
1991 196 0.000050317 196 100%
1992 168 0.000043736 168 100%
1993 147 0.000038989 147 100%
1994 106 0.000028513 106 100%
1995 81 0.000022118 81 100%
1996 70 0.000019193 70 100%
1997 69 0.000019031 69 100%
1998 49 0.000013322 49 100%
1999 70 0.00001895 70 100%
2000 95 0.000025133 95 100%
2001 100 0.000026714 100 100%
2002 87 0.000023273 87 100%
2003 72 0.000018936 72 100%
2004 72 0.000018844 72 100%
2005 67 0.000017426 67 100%
2006 57 0.000014408 57 100%
2007 65 0.000016259 65 100%
2008 45 0.000011448 45 100%
2009 52 0.000013612 52 100%
2010 52 0.00001407 52 100%
2011 65 0.00001777 65 100%
2012 52 0.000014218 52 100%
2013 55 0.000015086 55 100%
2014 52 0.00001403 52 100%
2015 42 0.000011349 42 100%
2016 29 0.000007905 29 100%
2017 26 0.00000727 26 100%
2018 21 0.000005973 21 100%
2019 27 0.000007779 27 100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 100%
2021 7 0.000002066 7 100%
2022 8 0.000002365 8 100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 100%
2024 20 0.000006009 20 100%

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