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porto Name Meaning and History

  1. Portuguese: habitational name from Porto (Oporto).
  2. Spanish: habitational name from any of the numerous places, especially in Galicia, named Porto, usually in the sense ‘mountain pass’.
  3. Italian: habitational name from any of numerous minor places named or named with Porto, from porto ‘port’, ‘harbor’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The porto name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the porto family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of porto Families in the US in 1920
Number of porto families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 13
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Victor John Porto, 1916-1998 map2knit 0
John or Samuel Porto of Philadelphia PA c. 1909 BGGenie2000 0
Joseph Dal Porto NMFireHorse 0
seeking information Timothy Texido 4
re: seeking information T. Texido 3
Searching: Chad Williams 0
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