Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : habitational name from Porras, a town in Andalusia, or nickname from the plural of porra ‘cudgel’, ‘club’, nickname either for a stockily built person or for a tiresome person. ‘Porras!’ is also used as an idiomatic expression meaning ‘Go to the Devil’.
- Galician : habitational name from any of three places in Lugo province named Porras.