Name meaning & stats
Porter
Porter means “to carry”. 18,441 US babies since 1940, peak 2015.
What it means
“to carry”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2015
18,441 US babies were named Porter between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Porter (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2015)