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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of leeks or other vegetables, from Middle High German porre, pforre ‘leek’ (from Latin porrum).
  • German : Possibly an altered spelling of South German Pforr, a variant of 1.

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