Portia
Latin
"pig, hog or doorway"Portia Origin and Meaning
The name Portia is girl's name of Latin origin meaning "pig, hog or doorway".
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 1940's, 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 posh brand -- much more downscale image.
Namesake Portia de Rossi actually started life as Amanda/Mandy.
Another Shakespearean Portia was the wife of Brutus in Julius Caesar, based on a historical character. In the 1940's, 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 posh brand -- much more downscale image.
Namesake Portia de Rossi actually started life as Amanda/Mandy.
Portia Popularity
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Famous People Named Portia
- Portia de Rossi (born Amanda Lee Rogers)Australian actress
- Portia de Rossimother of 16th,century Italian poet Torquato Tasso
- Portia DawsonAmerican actress
- Portia Ann DoubledayAmerican actress
- Portia MunsonAmerican artist
- Portia Perezring name of Jenna Grattan, American pro wrestler
- Portia RosenbergBritish illustrator
- Portia Lucretia SimpsonMiller, Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Portia May WhiteCanadian operatic contralto
- Portia WoodmanNew Zealand rugby player
- Portia Umansky (b. 2008)daughter of reality TV personalities Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky
Portia in Pop Culture
- Portiacharacter in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"
- Portia Catoniswife of Marcus Junius Brutus in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
- Portiacharacter in musical "Soomething Rotten"
- Portia Gibbonscharacter on animated series "The Mighty B!"
- Portia Bellefleurcharacter on TV's "True Blood"
- Portia Quaynemain character in "The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen
- Portia Leachdaughter of Archie Leach in film "A Fish Called Wanda"
- Portia Copelandcharacter in Carson McCullers' "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
- Portiaa stylist and minor character in 'The Hunger Games' trilogy
- Portiaa princess in the Barbie movie "Princess Charm School"
- Portia Lincharacter on TV'S "Dark Matter"
- Portia ScottGriffith, character on the NBC sitcom "Great News"
- Portia Devorakthe Queen's sassy handmaiden on The Arcana, a visual novel app.
- Portia Blakecharacter in Elizabeth Enright's children's novel "Gone,Away Lake"
- Portia "Tia" HalstonCain, character in the Blackwood Security series by Elise Noble