Porte Family History
- 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 73,661 Historical Documents with Porte on Ancestry
- 34,045 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,082 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,904 Military Records
- 3,847 Immigration Records
- 17,783 Member Trees
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Number of Porte families
 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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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Porte census records
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