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porras Name Meaning and History

  1. 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’.
  2. Galician: habitational name from any of three places in Lugo province named Porras.

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Distribution of porras Families in the US in 1920
Number of porras families
 21-39
 8-20
 1-7
 0
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