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Laporta Family History

Laporta Name Meaning
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. EC, DK This is a common name among Sephardic Jews in Catalonia.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

9,494 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Laporta
2,546 Census and Voter Lists
996 Immigration Records
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1,846 Member Family Trees
605 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Laporta Families

  • Number of Laporta families
     16 - 29
     6 - 15
     1 - 5
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Laporta Family Origin

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Laporta Immigration Information

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Average Life Expectancy for Laporta

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Laporta Family Occupations

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