What is the meaning of the name Porter?

The meaning of the name Porter is "gatekeeper". The origin of the name is "French". The name Porter is mostly used as a boys name.

Right pronunciation of Porter

\p(o)-rter, por-ter\

Names like Porter or other variants

Potter, Carter, Parker, Peter, Pieter, Procter

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Porter is a fairly popular first name for boys (#1200) and an even more popular last name (#129). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this boys name above or write a comment on the name Porter.

How popular is the name Porter?

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The year 2014 was for Porter a very good year. In that year there were 835 births with the name Porter. Find out if Porter is in the top 100 boys names 2014 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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