Portia

[rachelrainbow]

For a little girl- what do you think?

I like it. Shakespearean. The meaning isn't great though, and people might think it's Porsche.

I think it's a bit pretentious.

Bit pretentious .Public school name, well heeled parents

Not very helpful I know, but.....I had a cat called Portia!

Funny as I think the opposite!

I like many Shakespearean names, but not this one.

This.

On the 'posh' aspect, names tend to start posh and then become middle class then working etc. over time. Freakonomics did a thing.

Makes me immediately think Sloane ranger from the 80s.

I like the legal connotations.

But a friend used to teach one who pronounced it ‘Port-ia’. It’s her own name so fine, but be aware of potential slip ups!

White Lotus.

I like it

I hate it.

It sounds like "abortion."

Funny, I like Marcia but not this.

I like it but people will think you’ve named her after a car.

It's the way you'd pronounce Porsche. A bit weird.

Middle class privileged springs to mind. Names have to 'fit' the child. Some do not conjure up any class or temperament image(e.g
naughty child) where as others do.

I like it.

From the Latin porcus, meaning "pig"; because your average Brit is going to know that, eh? Some people are just pointless show-offs. And look at the endless, parroting of equally silly showing off when someone mentions Claudia.

Me too. This is the sort of name that was very posh in the 60s and 70s and is now very down-market in my experience.

Portia Featherington - desperate/over reaching. Too try hard

I quite like it. Only 4 girls given the name in 2021 the darkgreener site tells me. I wonder why it's so unused.

Too posh and simultaneously too downmarket if the replies here are anything to go by. But of course...

I think it would go well with a boring surname. Portia Jones sounds cool to me.

"Portia" is one of my fave names!

You'll get people mispronouncing it with a hard T.

It just reminds me of A fish called Wanda!