Porras
surname · Latin script
Meaning: shit
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/poras/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Porras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 129(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K
- COColombia≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129 (inferred from the name graph)
39,606 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
shit
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Porras 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #34 | 39,606 | 1 in 129 | 40K | Porras | 110 |
| CO Colombia | #278 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 17 | Porras | 138 |
| PH Philippines | #582 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Porras | 74 |
| PE Peru | #273 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Porras | 95 |
| ES Spain | #297 | 15,344 | 1 in 3.3K | 15K | Porras | 183 |
| VE Venezuela | #427 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Porras | 63 |
| NI Nicaragua | #276 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Porras | 35 |
39,606 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Porras is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hil, a common surname from Spanish, common in Iloilo, esp. the city of Passi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, step, stair
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In krl, stairs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, step
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Rafael Mora Porrasb. 1814CRPresident of Costa Rica (1814–1860)
- Miguel Mora Porrasb. 1816CRCosta Rican politician (1816-1887)
- Belisario Porras Barahonab. 1856PAPresident of Panama (1856-1942)
- Arturo Cruz Porrasb. 1923NINicaraguan economist, diplomat and politician; president of the Central Bank of Nicaragua (1979–1980)
- Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozob. 1944VEArchbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida
- Gabriel Porrasb. 1968MXMexican actor
- José Porrasb. 1970CRCosta Rican footballer
- Jonathan Islasb. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor
- Carlos Lampeb. 1987BOnot in their usual nameBolivian footballer
- Marco Ureñab. 1990CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 40K | #55 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 15K | #345 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15K | #345 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 17 | #99 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Porras mean, and where does it come from?
- shit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Porras?
- A machine transcription gives /poras/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Porras have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Porras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled porras.
- Where is Porras most common?
- Porras is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 129 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Porras?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 39,606 people named Porras, about 1 in 129 residents.
- How common is Porras compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Porras is the 34th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porrasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Porras” — the 34th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.