The laporta Surname
laporta Name Meaning and History
Italian (La Porta), Catalan, and Aragonese: 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 porta ‘gateway’, ‘door’, ‘entrance’ (Latin porta,
‘door’, ‘entrance’), with the definite article la.
This is a common name among Sephardic Jews in Catalonia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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