Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Portland” in the USA?

Number of people named “Portland” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Portland” by birth year

This chart shows how “Portland” 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
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 100%
1965 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
2002 5 0.000001338 5 -100%
2008 5 0.000001272 5 -100%
2010 7 0.000001894 7 100%
2012 6 0.000001641 6 -100%
2015 10 0.000002702 5 5 0%
2016 14 0.000003816 7 7 0%
2017 14 0.000003915 6 8 -14%
2018 15 0.000004266 6 9 -20%
2019 18 0.000005186 13 5 44%
2020 19 0.000005688 8 11 -16%
2021 24 0.000007084 11 13 -8%
2022 18 0.000005321 12 6 33%
2023 11 0.000003322 5 6 -9%
2024 13 0.000003906 6 7 -8%

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