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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese : habitational name from Porto (Oporto).
  • Spanish : habitational name from any of the numerous places, especially in Galicia, named Porto, usually in the sense ‘mountain pass’.
  • Italian : habitational name from any of numerous minor places named or named with Porto, from porto ‘port’, ‘harbor’.

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