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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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