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Porter

Rank in 2024
#615
Born in 2024
463
Peak year
2015 · #375
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 463 boys were named Porter, about 1 in every 3,705.
  • It peaked in 2015 with 862 babies, ranked #375.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 20,274 boys have been named Porter since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Porter per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
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    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,939 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Silent: 1,185 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 864 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 422 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 599 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,224 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,473 babies, 0.39 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English Porter, from porter (“porter”), From Old French portier (“doorman”), from porte (“door”) From Old French portour (“bearer”), from porter (“to carry”)

  • A unisex given name.
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Porter, CC BY-SA 4.0.