Portland — #13682 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Portland

The Social Security Administration has registered 164 babies named Portland between 1958 and 2024, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Portland currently holds the #13682 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Portland is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 93 additional births since 2002.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Portland performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Portland shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Portland in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Portland in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 164 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.