as a Last Name
- 8,739
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Porras
Meaning & Origins
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’.
| 4,099th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,739
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Porras per capita
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