Given name & surname
Portela
“mountain pass”
Portela is a surname from Galician. It is used in English and Galician.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Portela goes back to Galician Portela, meaning “mountain pass.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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