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The Portes surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 686 people carried this name — #33,316 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 56% from 441 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Portes surname

Borrowed from Catalan Portes, from portes, plural of porta (“door”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Portes» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 1,119 people named Portes.

46 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 55 départements, most often Tarn.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 46
Tarn 194
Hérault 171
Haute-Garonne 145
Aveyron 107
Gironde 62
Paris 40
Aude 39
Landes 37

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 118 people named Portes live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Misiones 57
Buenos Aires Province 45
City of Buenos Aires 16

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Portes,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Richard Portes
    Richard Portes 1941– · economist
  • Richard Portes
    Richard Portes 1941– · economist
  • Jules Portes 1825–1875 · writer
  • Louis Portes 1891–1950 · surgeon
  • Francine Dugast-Portes 1938–2023 · university teacher
  • Norma Bahia Pontes 1941–2010 · filmmaker

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Portes.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Portes is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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