Infographic of Portia name meaning, which is The symbol of a beautiful, wealthy, and brilliant woman, in allusion to the heroine of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The name is derived from the Latin Porcia, the feminine of Porcius, the title of a Roman clan prosperous in hog dealing, on the basis of the Latin porcus, a hog. It was Portia, in the role of girlattorney for Antonio, the friend of her suitor Bassanio, who uttered the imperishable words: “The quality of mercy is not strained.”
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Portia Name Popularity

How popular is the name Portia? Here’s everything we know.

Year Rank # Births % Births
1910 — 0 0%
1911 — 0 0%
1912 — 0 0%
1913 — 0 0%
1914 — 5 0.0007%
1915 — 5 0.0006%
1916 — 0 0%
1917 — 5 0.0005%
1918 — 5 0.0005%
1919 — 5 0.0005%
1920 — 5 0.0004%
1921 — 0 0%
1922 — 0 0%
1923 — 5 0.0004%
1924 — 0 0%
1925 — 0 0%
1926 — 5 0.0005%
1927 — 15 0.0014%
1928 — 8 0.0007%
1929 — 6 0.0006%
1930 — 0 0%
1931 — 0 0%
1932 — 5 0.0005%
1933 — 0 0%
1934 — 0 0%
1935 — 5 0.0005%
1936 — 0 0%
1937 — 0 0%
1938 — 0 0%
1939 — 0 0%
1940 — 6 0.0006%
1941 — 54 0.0048%
1942 — 104 0.0082%
1943 — 129 0.0099%
1944 — 51 0.0041%
1945 — 59 0.0048%
1946 — 105 0.0071%
1947 — 108 0.0065%
1948 — 134 0.0084%
1949 — 168 0.0104%
1950 — 149 0.0093%
1951 — 170 0.01%
1952 — 109 0.0062%
1953 — 107 0.006%
1954 — 141 0.0077%
1955 — 126 0.0069%
1956 — 77 0.0041%
1957 — 98 0.0051%
1958 — 87 0.0046%
1959 — 76 0.004%
1960 — 94 0.005%
1961 — 127 0.0067%
1962 — 88 0.0048%
1963 — 104 0.0058%
1964 — 91 0.0052%
1965 — 108 0.0066%
1966 — 80 0.0051%
1967 — 82 0.0054%
1968 — 49 0.0033%
1969 — 77 0.005%
1970 — 83 0.0052%
1971 — 91 0.0061%
1972 — 76 0.0056%
1973 — 77 0.0059%
1974 — 46 0.0035%
1975 — 38 0.003%
1976 — 42 0.0033%
1977 — 38 0.0028%
1978 — 71 0.0053%
1979 — 70 0.005%
1980 — 92 0.0063%
1981 — 90 0.0061%
1982 — 78 0.0052%
1983 — 106 0.0072%
1984 — 129 0.0087%
1985 — 127 0.0084%
1986 — 188 0.0125%
1987 — 191 0.0125%
1988 — 224 0.0144%
1989 — 228 0.0141%
1990 — 197 0.0119%
1991 — 159 0.0098%
1992 — 121 0.0076%
1993 — 97 0.0062%
1994 — 52 0.0034%
1995 — 32 0.0021%
1996 — 22 0.0015%
1997 — 11 0.0007%
1998 — 5 0.0003%
1999 — 14 0.0009%
2000 — 35 0.0023%
2001 — 26 0.0017%
2002 — 36 0.0024%
2003 — 9 0.0006%
2004 — 20 0.0013%
2005 — 20 0.0013%
2006 — 8 0.0005%
2007 — 15 0.001%
2008 — 11 0.0007%
2009 — 14 0.0009%
2010 — 16 0.0011%
2011 — 23 0.0016%
2012 — 18 0.0013%
2013 — 14 0.001%
2014 — 21 0.0014%
2015 — 12 0.0008%
2016 — 11 0.0008%
2017 — 0 0%
2018 — 0 0%
2019 — 5 0.0004%
2020 — 0 0%
2021 — 0 0%
2022 — 0 0%
2023 — 0 0%

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Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Persia

Land of Parsa people

Persian

Porcha

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Name Meaning Origin Popularity Other Gender
Artia

Bear

Celtic

Horatia

Timekeeper

Latin

Martia

Dedicated to Mars

Latin

Myrtia

Latin

Porsha

German

Tertia

Third

Latin

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15 Comments

  1. Hi, my name is Portia and I love my name people say my name like Porcha. And that not my name I get mad sometime but its ok.

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    • I LOVE MY NAME AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE IT IS BEAUTIFUL

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  2. Sounds exotic! Like the name of someone or a company group to fly around the world with in jets, to do a Portia landing in style! YES…sallyb

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  3. I am proud of my name and who I am. Am not a pig, not Hog.
    Am a goddess.

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    • No darling. It just means pig and you know it

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      • It makes me feel unique
        Goddess portia <3<3

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  4. I love this name because its an offering ??

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  5. I am Portia.. I feel special having this name…. Some people pronounced my name wrongly ?…….lastly I love my name very much <3

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  6. My name is Portia I love my name I feel special having this unique name. The name give me courage

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  7. Am portia and I love my name,and I understand why I have a piggery and also strong

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  8. Beautiful girl, very brilliant,humble

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    • I’m Portia.very proud of my name

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    • I love my name. Yes I was name after
      The play Shakespeare.
      Also years ago when no one had television.there was a radio show called
      Portia faces life. Great name for me because my mother passed away when I was 11 years old. And did I have to face life without a mother. In my travel I always tell people to address me as portia . That names means a lot to me. Thanks the lord and my parents for blessing me with the name portia.

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  9. Well my friends name is portia and im very sad shes a hog she is really really nice

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  10. We love that she’s the heroine in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” and also that it’s a rare name.

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