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[Surname] What is the origin of "Pora"
Can someone please help my family...we are trying to find the origin/meaning of the surname "Pora." Thank you!
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There are at least three different origins of the surname PORA:

ROMANIAN: this surname exists in BUCAREST but to me the origin is not
clear

SPANISH: it comes probably from a nickname that means "puerro"
from "poireau".
ITALIAN:Extremely rare but PORA could have come from Calabria. But now
Pora families are not more than ten in the whole of Italy.
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I looked up the French and Spanish on a translation site ...the French origin means 'onion' while the Spanish means a 'leek' which is basically a type of onion ...
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