Porcel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: redução dialetal setentrional de Porcelli
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/poɾθel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Porcel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 7.5K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
6,029 people
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
redução dialetal setentrional de Porcelli
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Porcel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #746 | 6,029 | 1 in 7.5K | 6K | Porcel | 79 |
| ES Spain | #909 | 4,525 | 1 in 11K | 4.5K | Porcel | 111 |
| BO Bolivia | #160 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Porcel | 36 |
| BR Brazil | — | 861 | 1 in 246K | 861 | Porcel | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 81 | Porcel | 146 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Porcel | 39 |
6,029 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Porcelb. 1720ESSpanish sculptor
- Ezequiel Porcel i Alabaub. 1877ESSpanish architect
- Carmen Porcelb. 1902ESSpanish actor
- Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcelb. 1913ESSpanish poet
- Baltasar Porcelb. 1937ESSpanish journalist (1937-2009)
- Tony Porcelb. 1937FRFrench boxer
- Marisa Porcelb. 1943ESSpanish actress
- Mike Porcelb. 1950CUguitarist, composer, orchestrator, song writer
- Lucía Pérez Porcelb. 1993ESSpanish politician
- Rosa PorcelESresearcher
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.5K | #1,161 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.5K | #1,161 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 861 | #10,587 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Porcel?
- A machine transcription gives /poɾθel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Porcel mean?
- Recorded meaning: redução dialetal setentrional de Porcelli
- In which country does Porcel have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Porcel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled porcel.
- How common is the name Porcel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 6,029 people named Porcel, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Porcel compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Porcel is the 746th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porcelThe 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, “Porcel” — the 746th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.