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Portnoy
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English
Etymology
From en ru портной tailor.
Proper noun
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en Barstool Sports founder retracts Auschwitz tour offer to customer in antisemitic sign incident w:Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/barstool-antisemitism-temple-university-philadelphia-auschwitz-72c7d507b4feb70e6fe0c8eed29b89b0 2025-05-05 Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he would send two customers to tour a former Nazi concentration camp after they allegedly engaged in antisemitic behavior at a Barstool pub in Philadelphia, then later retracted that offer for at least one of them because he said the person was denying responsibility for what happened. https://web.archive.org/web/20251210123848/https://apnews.com/article/barstool-antisemitism-temple-university-philadelphia-auschwitz-72c7d507b4feb70e6fe0c8eed29b89b0 10 December 2025
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Portnoy is the 16004th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1814 individuals. Portnoy is most common among White (95.87%) individuals.