Portland Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 3
Cheshire 1
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 2
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 3
London 10
Middlesex 2
Northumberland 3
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 1
Surrey 0
Sussex 2
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 3
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 1
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Portland Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Portland family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 4
Independent 4
Labourer 2
Laundress 1
Female Servant 1
Musician 1
Weaver 1
Tailor 1
Farmer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Portland

Name Census Frequency
John Portland 30
William Portland 22
Mary Portland 17
James Portland 16
Elizabeth Portland 14
Margaret Portland 13
Charles Portland 10
Thomas Portland 10
George Portland 9
Henry Portland 7
Joseph Portland 6
Alfred Portland 5
Ann Portland 5
Annie Portland 5
Arthur Portland 5
Hannah Portland 5
Samuel Portland 5
Alice Portland 4
Catherine Portland 4
Ellen Portland 4
Frederick Portland 4
Julia Portland 4
Duke Portland 3
Emily Portland 3
Emma Portland 3

Portland Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Portland 100% 311
2 Partland 88% 228

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The surname Portland is the most popular version of all its varients

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