Porras

11,636 people in the United States were counted with the surname Porras in the 2020 census, making it the 3,021st most common in the country. That is about one person in 25,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,636
Rank: 3,021st
How common: 1 in 25,700
Per 100,000: 3.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Porras.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Porras described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 89.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Porras

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (born 1944)Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
José Porras (born 1970)Costa Rican footballer
Belisario Porras Barahona (1856–1942)President of Panama
Gabriel Porras (born 1968)Mexican actor
Rafaela Porras y Ayllón (1850–1925)cofounder of Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Raúl Porras Barrenechea (1897–1960)Peruvian historian and politician

People named Porras with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Porras

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.