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
