Porca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sow; female equivalent of porco
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/pɔɹkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Porca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 156K(inferred from the name graph)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 11K
- HRCroatia1 in 282K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sow; female equivalent of porco
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Porca 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 156K | — | Porca | 14 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Porca | 3 |
| ES Spain | 119 | 1 in 420K | 119 | Porca | 29 |
| DE Germany | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Porca | 16 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Porca | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 15 | 1 in 282K | 15 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Porca 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 English, Obsolete form of Purakkad.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, the ridge between two furrows; balk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, sow (female pig)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Vācijā ("Porz am Rhein"), Ziemeļreinas-Vestfālenes federālajā zemē, Ķelnes pilsētas dienvidaustrumu daļa, 110900 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.), kas līdz 1975. g. bija atsevišķa pilsēta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Mēslošana no atejas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 119 | #24,309 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 119 | #24,252 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Porca mean, and where does it come from?
- sow; female equivalent of porco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Porca?
- A machine transcription gives /pɔɹkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Porca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 701 people named Porca in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled porca.
- How common is the name Porca?
- In Spain, the national register counted 119 people named Porca, about 1 in 420 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/porcaThe 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, “Porca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.