Porter

What Porter means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Porter yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 531 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Porter?

US: Falling: down from #375 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 862 boys got the name (#375 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,217 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.82 per 1,000 boys), ND (1.79 per 1,000 boys), UT (1.42 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Porter is #560 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 88.6% of US babies named Porter were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Porter

Boys

• Camden#205“enclosure + valley”^*
• Kayden#135Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1989, with 6 babies
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Carter#45“son of Arthur”^*
• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025

For a sister

• Serenity#129Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #129 vs #997 in 2025
• Avery#37Editor’s note Used for both: 82% of US babies named Avery in 2025 were girls
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025
• Sofia#9“wisdom, especially divine wisdom”^*
• Bella#136Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Porter’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.