Portia is a feminine given name taken from the name of the Roman Porcia gens, which was ultimately derived from the Latin porcus; porcus translates to pig. It is best known as a character who disguises herself as a man to act as an imposter judge and save the life of Antonio in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Porsha is a modern misspelling variant.
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Women
Portia (wife of Brutus) or Porcia, the wife of Roman senator Marcus Junius Brutus
Portia Arthur (born 1990), Ghanaian author, writer and reporter
Portia Spennie Blackiston (1898–1973), American educator and clubwoman
Portia Dawson, American actress
Portia de Rossi or Portia DeGeneres, Australian-born actress
Portia Doubleday, American actress
Portia Geach (1873–1959), Australian artist and feminist
Portia Holman (1903–1983), Australian child psychiatrist
Portia Mansfield (1887–1979), American dance educator and choreographer
Portia Robinson (1926–2023), Australian historian
Portia Holmes Shields, American academic administrator
Portia Simpson-Miller, political leader of Jamaica's People's National Party and Prime Minister of Jamaica
Portia White, Canadian singer
Portia Wu (born 1970), American lawyer
Portia Zvavahera (born 1985), Zimbabwean painter
Pen name
Portia, pen name of Abigail Adams (1744–1818)
Portia, pen name of Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge (1803–1825)
Fictional
Portia (The Merchant of Venice), a character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice
Portia Quayne, the protagonist in The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Portia Gibbons, a character on The Mighty B!
Portia, a minor character in The Hunger Games
Portia Copeland, a character in Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Portia Blake, the lead character in the American radio and television soap opera Portia Faces Life
Portia, a spider protagonist in Children of Time, a novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Portia, Door's mother in Neverwhere, a novel by Neil Gaiman
Portia Featherington, the matriarch of the Featherington family in the Bridgerton novels and Netflix television adaptation.
Princess Portia, a character in the animated fantasy film Barbie: Princess Charm School.
Portia, from the "Spencer and Portia" segments of 101 Dalmatian Street
Portia Maye, the Houndmaster in the video game Dead by Daylight
Portia Weever, a character in Waterloo Road
Portia, named after the Shakespearean character, a lead character in the 2015 musical Something Rotten!