Por
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of Portugal
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Por is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 38K(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 90K
- NLNetherlands1 in 146K
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 Por itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
3,772 named פאר, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled For in US United States, HK Hong Kong, Foer in BR Brazil, ES Spain and Faer in IL Israel.
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)Abbreviation of Portugal.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Por 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 3,772as פאר | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | Faer | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 736 | 1 in 288K | 736 | Foer | 2 |
| US United States | 573as Poer | 1 in 581K | 597 | For | 189 |
| FR France | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 44 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 427as Far | 1 in 117K | 427 | Foer | 24 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | For | 14 |
| SI Slovenia | 56 | 1 in 38K | 56 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 40as Far | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
3,772 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017, counting the spelling פאר. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Por is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, subst. (praz), cf. si Por imparat" din Alexandria" ; nu din Porfir (etim. Pasca), n. calend. folosit numai In forma Pro fir. 1. Poru, Gr., olt. (Sd XXII) ; Por nume de bou (Sc). 2. Pora, Nic., literat. 3. Porea, Gh., din Ceral (BCI XII 141) ; Radul, 1425 (Div 63) ; Porescu act. 4. Poricel act. 5. Poru/iu, ard. 6. Cf. Poride, Damian, ard. (Met :224) ; pentru sufix cf. si Stoide < Stoia.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Hungarian, dust
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Portuguese, by, through, for
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Luxembourgish, alternative form of Par (“parish”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Portuguese.
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)- Karl Porb. 1868ATcomposer and kapellmeister
- Grega Porb. 1982SISlovene ice hockey player (born 1982)
- Amara Por Diosb. 1988SESwedish artist
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 169 | #34,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 68 | #34,440 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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 Por mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of Portugal. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Por have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named פאר, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Por most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Por is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Por?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 736 people named Por, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porThe 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, “Por”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.