Porter Boy Name

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The name Porter is of Latin origin, and means gatekeeper. The table below indicates the number of times the name Porter has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Porter**
Use of the Name Porter for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
5,398	1,567	1,504	1,504	1,328	641	327

The table below indicates the number of times the name Porter has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Porter**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	275	38
1881	284	32
1882	329	28
1883	355	23
1884	383	22
1885	281	36
1886	356	24
1887	479	14
1888	295	37
1889	414	20
1890	349	26
1891	393	20
1892	316	35
1893	366	25
1894	363	26
1895	388	25
1896	384	26
1897	365	27
1898	333	34
1899	372	25
1900	465	25
1901	377	25
1902	346	33
1903	445	22
1904	406	27
1905	354	35
1906	462	24
1907	433	29
1908	437	31
1909	514	26
1910	439	40
1911	441	44
1912	479	68
1913	500	77
1914	499	97
1915	560	102
1916	500	130
1917	569	108
1918	564	116
1919	560	115
1920	572	119
1921	586	118
1922	646	100
1923	687	89
1924	634	104
1925	622	103
1926	744	75
1927	714	83
1928	598	107
1929	679	82
1930	709	78
1931	694	76
1932	733	73
1933	748	67
1934	817	59
1935	890	51
1936	807	58
1937	756	66
1938	741	69
1939	818	56
1940	793	62
1941	845	57
1942	755	72
1943	830	64
1944
1945
1946	926	52
1947	903	60
1948
1949	893	60
1950	942	54
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955	946	63
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999	858	176
2000	803	200
2001	762	224
2002	689	263
2003	643	314
2004	633	327
Totals:		5,398		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Porter as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Porter appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 75 times during the last 125 years.

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