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Purificacion Purificacion — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poor-ee-fee-kah-see-OHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Purification of Mary (Spanish + Catholic Candlemas)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "purification of mary (spanish + catholic candlemas)".

Purificacion is from the Spanish Purificación — purification — from Latin purificatio. Purificacion is one of the Spanish feminine names — central to traditional Spanish + Latin American Catholic heritage.

Purification of Mary (Spanish).

The name in its native script.

Purificación
Transliteration
Purificación
Pronunciation
/ pjʊr.ɪ.fɪ.kə.siˈoʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Purificacion stands.

Purificacion does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Purificacions before her.

Real people

In fiction
Purification of Mary / Candlemas
Catholic feast February 2 + Mary's ritual purification 40 days after Jesus's birth + Luke 2:22-39 + Simeon's Canticle / Nunc Dimittis + blessing of candles + Día de la Candelaria Mexican.
Luke 2

Names connected to Purificacion.

The number behind Purificacion.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Purificacion reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.