Given name & surname
Pura
“one who is chaste; clean”
Pura is a variant of Purity. One English interpretation is “one who is chaste; clean.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Pura is a variant of Purity. One English interpretation is “one who is chaste; clean.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Pura is a variant of Purity. An origin associated with Purity is English. Pura is a short form of Purificación. An origin associated with Purificación is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1922. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pura through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 173
- 0 boys · 173 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,208 as a first name in 2020; 323 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pura’s family of names
Pura is a short form of Purificación. Pura has a related form in Purity. In Finnish usage, Pura as a surname has a related form in PORALI.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Pura
- Pura BelpréPuerto Rican writer, puppeteer, and librarian (1899–1982)
- Pura Maortua1883–1972
- Pura López ColoméMexican poetborn 1952
- Pura ArcosSpanish trade unionist (1919–1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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