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The porte Surname

porte Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Port.
  2. French: from Old French porte ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ (from Latin porta), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town (typically, the man in charge of them).
  3. Jewish (Sephardic): variant of Porta.

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Distribution of porte Families in the US in 1920
Number of porte families
 12-21
 5-11
 1-4
 0
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