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.

# 961 in the US

Portia Rank in US Top 1000

# 1069 on Nameberry

Portia Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Portia Popularity

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

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