Portia
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Portia
Portia is a perfect role-model name, relating to Shakespeare's brilliant and spirited lawyer in The Merchant of Venice, and is now also a Hunger Games name .
Another Shakespearean Portia was the wife of Brutus in Julius Caesar, based on a historical character. In the 1940s, when the name was most used, there was a popular radio soap called Portia Faces Life, the heroine being – what else? – a brilliant and spirited lawyer.
Portia is a recommended choice, even though some people might think you named your child for the car. Just don't spell it Porsche, which may sound the same but has a totally different and – despite the aspirational brand – less refined image.
Namesake Portia de Rossi actually started life as Amanda/Mandy.
Portia is also given to boys.
Pronounced POR-shuh.
As of October 2026, Portia ranked #6076 in US births in 1989 SSA.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,177 | 52 | 29.1 |
| 2015 | #3,691 | 42 | 23.5 |
| 2016 | #4,812 | 29 | 16.4 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Portia on lists
Famous Portias
- Portia de Rossi (born Amanda Lee Rogers)Girl
Australian actress
- Portia de RossiGirl
mother of 16th,century Italian poet Torquato Tasso
- Portia DawsonGirl
American actress
- Portia Ann DoubledayGirl
American actress
- Portia MunsonGirl
American artist
- Portia PerezGirl
ring name of Jenna Grattan, American pro wrestler
- Portia RosenbergGirl
British illustrator
- Portia Lucretia SimpsonGirl
Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Portia May WhiteGirl
Canadian operatic contralto
- Portia WoodmanGirl
New Zealand rugby player
- Portia Umansky (b. 2008)Girl
daughter of reality TV personalities Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky
Portia in pop culture
- PortiaGirl
character in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"
- Portia CatonisGirl
wife of Marcus Junius Brutus in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
- PortiaGirl
character in musical "Soomething Rotten"
- Portia GibbonsGirl
character on animated series "The Mighty B!"
- Portia BellefleurGirl
character on TV's "True Blood"
- Portia QuayneGirl
main character in "The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen
- Portia LeachGirl
daughter of Archie Leach in film "A Fish Called Wanda"
- Portia CopelandGirl
character in Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
- PortiaGirl
a stylist and minor character in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy
- PortiaGirl
a princess in the Barbie movie "Princess Charm School"
- Portia LinGirl
character on TV'S "Dark Matter"
- Portia ScottGirl
Griffith, character on the NBC sitcom "Great News"
- Portia DevorakGirl
the Queen's sassy handmaiden on The Arcana, a visual novel app.
- Portia BlakeGirl
character in Elizabeth Enright's children's novel "Gone,Away Lake"
- Portia "Tia" HalstonGirl
Cain, character in the Blackwood Security series by Elise Noble