Given name
Purificación
“purification”
Purificación is a feminine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Purificación goes back to a word meaning “purification.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
Purificación’s family of names
Purificación has a short form in Pura. Purificación has a conventional naming counterpart in Garbikunde. Purificación has an affectionate form in Purita.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Purificación
- Purificacion SantamartaSpanish Paralympianborn 1962
- Purificación Angue OndoEquatorial Guinean ambassador to Spainborn 1946
- Purita CamposSpanish painter (1937-2019)
- Pura ArcosSpanish trade unionist (1919–1995)
- Purificación OrtizSpanish Paralympic athleteborn 1972
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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