Porphyrios

surname · Latin script

Porphyrios is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 79Kas Porfiri(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4Mas Porfiri
  • ESSpain1 in 2.9Mas Porfiri

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Porphyrios itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

578 named Porfiri

Record sources
58 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 44M (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
PorfiriLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Korean

그리스의 철학자(?234～?305).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Porphyrios counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Porphyrios is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina578as Porfiri1 in 79K578——
BR Brazil21as Porfiri1 in 10M21——
ES Spain17as Porfiri1 in 2.9M17—1
CH Switzerland6as Porfiri1 in 1.4M6—3
BE Belgium3as Porfiri1 in 3.9M3—1
GB United Kingdom≈1 est.≈1 in 44M—Porphyrios5

578 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Porphyrios is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Cyprus, United States

    Also written Porfyrios, Πορφυριος, Πορφύριος, Porfýrios, Porphyry

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Porphyrios under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Porphyrios have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 578 people named Porfiri, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Porphyrios?
In Argentina, the national register counted 578 people named Porfiri, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Porphyrios”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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