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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Port.
  • French : from Old French porte ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ (from Latin porta), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town (typically, the man in charge of them).
  • Jewish (Sephardic) : variant of Porta.

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