Portar Family Crest & Name History

Portar is best understood alongside Porter: both are English and Scottish spellings of one family name. The family name meaning is “Gatekeeper”, the same as for Porter.

Portar and Porter

Records show Portar as one of the forms Porter took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Portier and Portman.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Porter and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Get the complete Portar report, with a museum-style coat of arms.