as a Last Name
- 7,704
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Laporte
Meaning & Origins
French: topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town (and often was in charge of them; thus in part a metonymic occupational name), from Old French porte ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ (from Latin porta, ‘door’, ‘entrance’), with the definite article la. In French Canada it is a secondary surname, which has also been used alone since 1670.
| 4,611th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 7,704
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Laporte per capita
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