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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Italian : nickname from porro ‘leek’, ‘allium’. In Spanish and Portuguese it denoted a stupid, coarse individual. In Italian, however, the term also means ‘wart’ and the nickname probably denoted someone with warts or boils.
  • Catalan : possibly habitational name from El Porró, a place in Alacant, Valencia.

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