Porterfield
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives on land owned by a porter
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Porterfield is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 48K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 49K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person who lives on land owned by a porter.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Porterfield counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Porterfield | 1 |
| US United States | 6,780 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Porterfield | 335 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 190 | Porterfield | 78 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Porterfield | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Porterfield | 54 |
| AT Austria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Porterfield | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Porterfield | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Porterfield is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Scottish surname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George A. Porterfieldb. 1822USConfederate States Army colonel
- Wilbur H. Porterfieldb. 1873USAmerican photographer (1873–1958)
- Robert Porterfieldb. 1905USAmerican actor and director (1905-1971)
- Bob Porterfieldb. 1923USAmerican baseball player
- Ian Porterfieldb. 1946GBScottish footballer (1946–2007)
- Amanda Porterfieldb. 1947USHistorian of American religion
- Eric Porterfieldb. 1974USAmerican politician and member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
- Matthew Porterfieldb. 1977USAmerican filmmaker
- William Porterfieldb. 1984IENorthern Irish cricketer
- Ellary Porterfieldb. 1989USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.8K | #5,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,302 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 190 | #22,032 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Porterfield mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives on land owned by a porter. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Porterfield have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Porterfield in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled porterfield.
- How common is the name Porterfield?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,780 people named Porterfield in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Porterfield?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porterfieldThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Porterfield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.