MEANING & HISTORY
What does Purificación mean?
Purificación is the Spanish word for purification used as a personal name in reference to Mary’s ritual purification after childbirth. The name belongs to a religious commemorative tradition rather than describing a child’s personal cleanliness or moral status.
The ordinary word supplies the direct meaning, while the Marian occasion explains its naming context. Its accent belongs to Spanish spelling and is part of the exact recorded form.
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Pronunciation & syllables
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Spanish
- /puɾifikaˈθjon/
- [pu.ɾi.fi.kaˈθjõn]
- /puɾifikaˈsjon/
- [pu.ɾi.fi.kaˈsjõn]
Pu · ri · fi · ca · ción5 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
SpanishEtymology & source
From purificación (“purification”), shortened from María (de la) Purificación, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary on the feast day of purification after childbirth.
a female given name
Wiktionary: Purificación (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
SpanishEtymology & source
Inherited from Latin Marīa, from Ancient Greek Μαρίᾱ (Maríā), from Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām).
a female given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Mary
Wiktionary: Purificación (Spanish) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Purificación
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Purificacion Quisumbing
Filipino human rights activist
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Purificacion Quisumbing
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Purificación in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Purificación
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Purificacion♀Purification; a Marian devotional name
- Visitación♂♀Visitation, referring to Mary’s visit to Elizabeth
- Liberacion♀Spanish liberation-word account
- Adoracion·Adoration, in the Spanish Adoración tradition
- Consolacion♀Consolation, from a Marian devotional title
- Encarnacion·Spanish name associated with the Incarnation
- Encarnación♀Incarnation; from a Marian title
- Hilarion♂Cheerful, from Greek hilaros
What rhymes with Purificación?
Matches share a dictionary-supplied rhyme key in the stated language. Check the recorded reading; another language or accent can change the rhyme.
- ConcepciónSpanish · /-on/
- EncarnaciónSpanish · /-on/
- FilemónSpanish · /-on/
- HilariónSpanish · /-on/
- LeónSpanish · /-on/
- NapoleónSpanish · /-on/
- PantaleónSpanish · /-on/
- RamónSpanish · /-on/
- SimeónSpanish · /-on/
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
Explore Purificación further
Follow the sources
- Wikidata given-name item Q43653333 — Purificación (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Purificacion Quisumbing (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q43653333 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Purificación (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Purificación (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Purificación (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.