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Portland

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name2 syllables2 tokens

Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls

In 2025

#11,681 for girls

Peak

2019, #8,500

Since 1880

265 babies

On licences

4 dogs in New York

Charting: Portland

Figure 1. Human babies named Portland, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
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Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Portland was given to 8 girls in 2025, ranking 11,681st for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 8,500th and went to 13 babies. It has appeared in 25 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 204 places since 2020. It is also on 4 dog licences in New York City, ranked 14,635th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Portland, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Portland yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Rare enough that the name is yours in the workspace, and common enough that it is a name.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Portland · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent