Entry № 8234 · French origin

Porter Porter — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POR-ter /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Doorkeeper (Cole Porter; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "doorkeeper (cole porter; modern unisex)".

Porter is from the Old French portier — from Latin portarius (doorkeeper, gatekeeper). Henry; The Gift of the Magi (1905).

Doorkeeper (Cole Porter; modern unisex) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Porter
Transliteration
Porter
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɔːr.tər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Porter stands.

Porter does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Porters before her.

Real people
Cole Porter
American songwriter.
1891 – 1964
Katherine Anne Porter
American Pulitzer novelist.
1890 – 1980
O. Henry (W.S. Porter)
American short story writer.
1862 – 1910
In fiction
Porter
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Porter.

The number behind Porter.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Porter reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.