Porscha
Porscha was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,457 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Porscha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 33 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Porscha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Porscha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Porscha is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of latter 20th century African-American usage.”
Probably from the luxury car brand Porsche.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Porscha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,552, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
134 babies in 1989, the peak
Porscha peaked in 1989, when 134 girls were given it, #1,205 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,552 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,488 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,070 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,385 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,899 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,025 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,489 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,015 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,091 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,438 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 17 | #7,068 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,750 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,246 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,960 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,010 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,404 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,593 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,892 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,337 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,151 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,865 | 23.9 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,647 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,208 | 33.2 |
| 1992 | 76 | #1,864 | 41.2 |
| 1991 | 100 | #1,544 | 53.3 |
| 1990 | 119 | #1,342 | 62.7 |
| 1989 | 134 | #1,205 | 72.7 |
| 1988 | 97 | #1,433 | 54.5 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,171 | 72.5 |
| 1986 | 90 | #1,431 | 52.5 |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,615 | 43.0 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,881 | 33.9 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,340 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,069 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,596 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,955 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,219 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,730 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,172 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,880 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,723 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,418 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Porscha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Porscha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Porscha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Porscha, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,457 Americans ever recorded as Porscha. The median Porscha alive today is 37 years old; half are between 33 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,176 people named Porscha (1,172 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 88 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 206 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Porscha born?
The states with the most babies named Porscha are California, Illinois and Texas, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 138 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 82 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 70 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 43 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Porscha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,953 babies since 1880, Porscha is the second most given (37% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Porscha
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Porscha and names like it
- Compare Porscha and PorscheBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sPorscha peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Porscha since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Porscha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Porscha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Porscha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with PMost given first.