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Popoca Family History

Popoca Surname Meaning

Amerindian (Mexico): from the Nahuatl (Aztec) verb popoca ‘to smoke’.

In the Aztec legend this is a short form of the name of a warrior the suitor of Ixta turned into the Popocatépetl (‘the smoking mountain’) volcano.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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Between 1981 and 2004, in the United States, Popoca life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1994, and highest in 1989. The average life expectancy for Popoca in 1981 was 64, and 36 in 2004.

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