How common is the surname Porras?

12,106 people in the United States had the surname Porras in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,504 Americans. It ranked 2,962nd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Porras?

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida.

Where is the surname Porras most common?

Wikidata records people named Porras in Venezuela.

Is the surname Porras getting more or less common?

More common. 9,419 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,106 in 2010, up 29%.

The surname Porras

A Spanish place surname, carried by 12,106 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex P620

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Porras is more common than 98.2% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Porras

Porras is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 12,106 people named Porras in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,504 Americans. That is up 29% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,419.

#2,962

rank among US surnames

12,106

people in 2010

4.1

per 100,000 Americans

+28.5%

change since 2000 (was #3,467)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,953	Reis	12,165	25,380
#2,954	Birch	12,161	25,388
#2,955	Milner	12,153	25,405
#2,956	Slone	12,142	25,428
#2,957	Spurlock	12,141	25,430
#2,958	Tolliver	12,128	25,457
#2,960	Razo	12,125	25,464

Who is named Porras

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

90% of people named Porras identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 7.2% as white (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 90%
White (not Hispanic) 7.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Two or more races 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Famous Porrass

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo
Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida, born 1944

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Porras

Porras has the Soundex code P620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P620.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Porras come from?: Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Porras
How common is the surname Porras?: 12,106 people in the United States had the surname Porras in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,504 Americans. It ranked 2,962nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Porras?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Porras identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 7.2% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Porras?: Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida.
Where is the surname Porras most common?: Wikidata records people named Porras in Venezuela.
What type of surname is Porras?: Porras is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Porras getting more or less common?: More common. 9,419 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,106 in 2010, up 29%.