The porras Surname
porras Name Meaning and History
- Spanish: habitational name from Porras, a town in Andalusia, or nickname from the plural of porra ‘cudgel’, ‘club’, nickname either for a stockily built person or for a tiresome person. ‘Porras!’ is also used as an idiomatic expression meaning ‘Go to the Devil’.
- Galician: habitational name from any of three places in Lugo province named Porras.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| PORRAS , MOLINA RELATIVES | JOSE GARCIA | 1 |
| Porras & Salgado |
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| Manuel Porras | Mary Tarango | 37 |
| Porras family from Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico | Israel A. David | 9 |
| Moreno,Espejo,Saenz,Lugo, | Elmer | 2 |
| Julia Jimenez PORRAS, obit, 1928 - 2007 |
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