Portia

POR-sha

Latin

"pig"

Portia Origin and Meaning

The name Portia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "pig".

Portia is a perfect role-model name, relating to Shakespeare's brilliant and spirited lawyer in The Merchant of Venice, and is now also a Hunger Games name .

Another Shakespearean Portia was the wife of Brutus in Julius Caesar, based on a historical character. In the 1940s, when the name was most used, there was a popular radio soap called Portia Faces Life, the heroine being – what else? – a brilliant and spirited lawyer.

Portia is a recommended choice, even though some people might think you named your child for the car. Just don't spell it Porsche, which may sound the same but has a totally different and – despite the aspirational brand – less refined image.

Namesake Portia de Rossi actually started life as Amanda/Mandy.

Portia Rank in US Top 1000

# 961 in the US

Portia Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 848 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Portia

• 848 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Portia

• Portia de Rossi (born Amanda Lee Rogers) Australian actress
• Portia de Rossi mother of 16th,century Italian poet Torquato Tasso
• Portia Dawson American actress
• Portia Ann Doubleday American actress
• Portia Munson American artist
• Portia Perez ring name of Jenna Grattan, American pro wrestler
• Portia Rosenberg British illustrator
• Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Portia May White Canadian operatic contralto
• Portia Woodman New Zealand rugby player
• Portia Umansky (b. 2008) daughter of reality TV personalities Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky

The name Portia in Pop Culture

• Portia character in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"
• Portia Catonis wife of Marcus Junius Brutus in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
• Portia character in musical "Soomething Rotten"
• Portia Gibbons character on animated series "The Mighty B!"
• Portia Bellefleur character on TV's "True Blood"
• Portia Quayne main character in "The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen
• Portia Leach daughter of Archie Leach in film "A Fish Called Wanda"
• Portia Copeland character in Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
• Portia a stylist and minor character in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy
• Portia a princess in the Barbie movie "Princess Charm School"
• Portia Lin character on TV'S "Dark Matter"
• Portia Scott Griffith, character on the NBC sitcom "Great News"
• Portia Devorak the Queen's sassy handmaiden on The Arcana, a visual novel app.
• Portia Blake character in Elizabeth Enright's children's novel "Gone,Away Lake"
• Portia "Tia" Halston Cain, character in the Blackwood Security series by Elise Noble

International Variations of the name Portia

• Porcie French
• Porcia Spanish