Portia

Portia: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “offering”
Origin: Latin
Say it: POR-shuh · 2 syllables
Used for: Girls

Portia is the traditional English form of Latin Porcia, a feminine form of Porcius, a Roman family name. Shakespeare used Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

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How popular is Portia?

20246.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Portia in 202420

Peak year1989

Total US babies since 188010,621

Portia is fading: recent use is about 29% of its level ten years before.

Names like Portia

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Novanew · Latin

Portia questions

What does the name Portia mean?

Portia means "offering". It comes from Latin. Portia is the traditional English form of Latin Porcia, a feminine form of Porcius, a Roman family name. Shakespeare used Portia in The Merchant of Venice.

Is Portia a boy or girl name?

Portia is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Portia?

20 US babies were named Portia in 2024. Its peak year was 1989.

How do you pronounce Portia?

Portia is usually pronounced POR-shuh.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.