Porras Family History
Porras Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Porras Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Porras families
 21 - 39  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Porras families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Porras Family Origin
Porras Immigration Information
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Porras Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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