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Porte Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Port.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).Jewish
(Sephardic): variant of Porta.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Porte
Name Distribution of Porte Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Porte families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Porte families
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26 - 50 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Porte families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Porte census records
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Porte Family Origin
Porte Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Porte
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Porte Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Porte census records
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Porte Civil War Service Records
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