Porter

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Porter: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Porter: Recorded since 2009, it reached #392 in 2020, and it stood at #4,270 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
16years from first to last
#392highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2017–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2017	#5765
2018	#5666
2022	#5669

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 15 of the 16 years from 2009 to 2024.

In 2020: #392 among boys in Northern Ireland, #2682 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2009–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2009
First recorded at #3744 among boys in England and Wales in 2009 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4270 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Porter appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 2009, and has registered 87 births with the name.

Porter across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Porter's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3744 (2009)	#2112 (2018)	#4270 (2024)	15 of 16	87 (2009–2024)	10 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#5765 (2017)	#5666 (2018)	#5669 (2022)	3 of 6	9 (2017–2022)	3 (2017)

Porter by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Porter in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	56	9 of 10	6
2020s	27	5 of 10	5

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Porter appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Porter's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2682	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2112	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2009 and 2024, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #392, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 11 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Poppy-Rae · #1411, 15y
Poppy-Rose · #740, 22y
Portia · #355, 29y
Posey · #2411, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cason · #392, 17y
Chulainn · #392, 18y
Culainn · #392, 15y
Delilah-Rose · #391, 13y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Arijus · #392, 17y
Cason · #392, 17y
Chulainn · #392, 18y
Culainn · #392, 15y

Porter was ranked #392 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Porter and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Porter without appearing here.

Porter moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Glenn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4789 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2546 and #4991.
Brooke Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4647 and #4647 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2403 and #3822.
Einar Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4789 and #4789 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4789.

Moved ahead of Porter

Arne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2682 and #2960 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #2493.
Daithi Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #3112 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #4270 and #3254.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2112 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3013 and #2104.

Moved the opposite way to Porter

Rune Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Porter went from #2403 to #4270 while Rune went from #4685 to #1460.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 2009 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Porter

Porter at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Porter across 2 official records

Porter by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Porter appears in

Popularity data

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Porter at a glance

Porter across 2 official records

Porter by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Porter appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Porter

Porter and the names beside it

Porter moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Porter

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