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Meaning & Origins
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name, either for someone who worked as a carrier of goods (Old French porteour, from a derivative of Latin portāre ‘to carry’) or else for a gatekeeper (Old French portier, from a derivative of Latin porta ‘door, gate’).
| 3,578th in the U.S. for 2011 |
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from the personal name Will, a very common medieval short form of William.
| 8th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Portirio, Portra, Portor, Portier, Portray, Portria, Portar, Porteria, Portery, Portter
Wilsey, Wilshire, Wilshusen, Wilsher, Wils, Wilsford, Wilske, Walson, Wilsie, Wilsman
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