Porten Family History
Porten Name Meaning
English: possibly a variant of Porton a habitational name from Porton in Wiltshire or Poorton in Dorset; both placenames are formed with an obscure first element perhaps the name of a river + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. North German: variant of Port (inflected form after an original preposition).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022