Porfirio
Porfirio is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 921st, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192156 births
- Best rank
- #921in 1932
- Since 1903
- 3,519people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,519 boys have been named Porfirio in the United States since 1903, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 56 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Porfirio | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 12 | |
| 1910s | 152 | |
| 1920s | 409 | |
| 1930s | 324 | |
| 1940s | 360 | |
| 1950s | 340 | |
| 1960s | 343 | |
| 1970s | 396 | |
| 1980s | 369 | |
| 1990s | 361 | |
| 2000s | 252 | |
| 2010s | 149 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Porfirio was the 948th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Porfirio
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ciprianopeak 1930
- Candelariopeak 1929
- Anselmopeak 1990
- Rosaliopeak 1994
- Venturapeak 1938
- Libradopeak 1946
- Florentinopeak 1992
- Laroypeak 1989
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.