Portia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Portia: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
34times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#802
1997	#897
1998	#1036
1999	#794
2000	#748
2001	#853
2002	#861
2003	#855
2004	#840
2005	#866
2006	#1153
2007	#987
2008	#1718
2009	#1752
2010	#2104
2011	#2636
2012	#3285
2013	#1537
2014	#2058
2015	#2195
2016	#1749
2017	#2706
2018	#2901
2019	#2869
2020	#4535
2021	#4634
2022	#3148
2023	#5687
2024	#5891

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #5687 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #802 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Portia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 498 births with the name.

Portia 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.

Portia'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 · Girls	#802 (1996)	#748 (2000)	#5891 (2024)	29 of 29	498 (1996–2024)	32 (2004)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#689 (2005)	#689 (2005)	#856 (2023)	4 of 19	12 (2005–2023)	3 (2005)

Portia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Portia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	100	4 of 10	25
2000sbusiest	262	10 of 10	26
2010s	115	10 of 10	12
2020s	21	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Portia appears in

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

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Portia'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	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1537	20	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2104	12	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1752	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1718	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1153	23	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#866	32	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#840	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#855	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#861	27	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#853	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#748	31	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#794	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1036	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#897	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#802	28	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified

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

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

Where Portia is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Portia, between 1996 and 2024. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2024	29	#748 in 2000
Republic of Ireland	2005–2023	4	#689 in 2005
Northern Ireland	2017	1	#355 in 2017

Its high point came 17 years earlier in England and Wales (2000) than in Northern Ireland (2017).

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 32 births, registered in England and Wales in 2004.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 21 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.

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Posie · #397, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Akram · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 30y
Laney · #355, 28y
Caelum · #354, 25y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akram · #355, 30y
Alia · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 30y
Jess · #355, 31y

Portia was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. 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.

Adah#355
Aisha#355
Aislinn#355
Alba#355
Abbey#432
Abi#432
Aibhlinn#432
Aideen#432

Portia 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 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Portia without appearing here.

Portia moved ahead of

Kristy
In 2013 they stood at #3285 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.
Tyler
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #2521 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1537 and #3160.

Moved ahead of Portia

Janet
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Malin
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2346.
Cecilie
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Maren
In 2022 they stood at #3148 and #4645 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2927.

Moved the opposite way to Portia

Ada
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Portia

Abigail
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Portia went from #802 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What is known about Portia

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 1996–2024.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Portia

Portia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Portia across 2 official records

Portia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Portia appears in

Popularity data

Where Portia is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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What is known about Portia

Portia at a glance

Portia across 2 official records

Portia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Portia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Portia

Portia and the names beside it

Portia moved ahead of

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