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Porcha vs Porsha

American parents have registered 4,037 Porshas since 1880, against 865 Porchas. Porsha is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Porcha against Porsha, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Porcha Porsha

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Porsha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1977, when Porcha had 9 and Porsha had 20.

Side by side

  Porcha Porsha
Total US births 8654,037
Most in one year 88302
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 8403,900
Median age today 3535
Peak year 19901989
Best rank 1,670th girls683rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 19771963
Girls / boys 865 / 04,031 / 6

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Porcha Porsha
England and Wales 49340

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Porcha and Porsha.