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    The surname Porreca

    An Italian surname, carried by 1,082 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex P620

    Porreca: #23,485 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Porreca #23,485, 1,082 people Porreca: #23,485 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Porreca #23,485, 1,082 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Porreca is more common than 85.5% of them.

    Origin

    Italian origin

    Borrowed from Italian Porreca.

    One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,082 people named Porreca in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 285,347 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,065.

    #23,485
    rank among US surnames
    1,082
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #22,538)

    Who is named Porreca

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

    97% of people named Porreca identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Porreca

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

    Other Italian surnames

    All 798 Italian surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Porreca come from?
    Borrowed from Italian Porreca.
    How common is the surname Porreca?
    1,082 people in the United States had the surname Porreca in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 285,347 Americans. It ranked 23,485th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Porreca?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Porreca identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Porreca getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,065 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,082 in 2010, up 1.6%.