as a Last Name
- 1,519
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Porta
Meaning & Origins
Italian, Catalan, Galician, southern French (Occitan), and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town, from Latin porta ‘gate’. This is also found as a Polish name, with the same origin.
| 16,461st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,519
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Louisiana
- has the most people named Porta per capita
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