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The PORTAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 823 27562 0 3
United States (1880 census) 21 71861 0 0
Change since 1880 +802 +44299 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 228333 0 0
United Kingdom 51 26037 0 1
Top States for PORTAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 377 5081 0.002 24
California 70 30465 0.000 2
New York 69 25455 0.000 4
Connecticut 62 7110 0.002 18
New Jersey 61 15490 0.001 7
Top States for PORTAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 377 5081 0.002 24
Connecticut 62 7110 0.002 18
New Jersey 61 15490 0.001 7
Massachusetts 29 24359 0.000 5
New York 69 25455 0.000 4

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PORTAL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PORTAL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PORTAL in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PORTAL by picking someone at random in Florida than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PORTAL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PORTAL surname.

Ethnic distribution of PORTAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 517 62.82
White (Caucasian) 283 34.39
Black/African American 10 1.22
Mixed Race 7 0.85
Asian/Pacific 6 0.73
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PORTAL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PORTAL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PORTAL in historical publications

PORTAL. The family are said to have been originally Spanish, and to haAe established themselves in Languedoc at the end of the XL century. Adopting, after some centuries' residence in that province, the principles of the Huguenots, some of their members were compelled to leave France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The founder of the family in England was Henri Portal, who settled in Hampshire, B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to PORTAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PORTAL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PORTAL

The following words are slight variants of PORTAL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.