Pota
Pota is a girl's name that peaked in 1918, when it was the 3,244th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1971. About 5 Potas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Pota
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 33
- Estimated living today
- 5
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 3,244th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1918
How old the living Potas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 33 babies given the name since 1918, about 5 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Pota is most common
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Pota peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.