Procopio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Procopius
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/pɾukupju/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Procopio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 9.5Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 18K
- UYUruguay1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Procopius
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Procopio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #589 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 745 | Procopio | 117 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | listed | Procopio | 54 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 89 | Procopio | 58 |
| US United States | — | 2,088 | 1 in 159K | 2.1K | Procopio | 122 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,013 | 1 in 45K | 1K | Procopio | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 176 | 1 in 48K | 176 | Procopio | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 78 | 1 in 43K | 78 | Procopio | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Procopio is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, dal greco, interpretato come 'circonciso' o 'progrediente'; santo martire di Taormina.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Spanish, Griego Προκόπιος, de προ- + κόπτω: 'el que avanza' o 'circunciso'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, Secondo il Fumagalli. equivale a u circonciso u. Se- condo il Paps. invece. a n progrediente ..S. Procopio, martire, venerato a Taormina. È cognome noll'Italia meridionale ed in Sicilia.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Fortuna
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Procopius (“Procopius”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michel, called Procope-Couteaux Coltellib. 1684FRnot in their usual name1684-1753; Arzt, Schriftsteller; Begründer des Café Procope (erstes literarisches Café Frankreichs)
- Matteo Procopiob. 1755ITSicilian linguist and priest
- Sergio Procopiob. 1965ITItalian actor
- Bruno Procopiob. 1976BRBrazilian musician
- Lia Quartapelleb. 1982ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician
- Matteo Procopiob. 1996ITItalian association football player
- Fortunato ProcopioCinematographer
- GianPaolo ProcopioGBPh.D. University of Cambridge 2007
- Noemi ProcopioITForensic scientist
- Giuseppe ProcopioITresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28K | #638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,332 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,006 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 176 | #6,956 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 89 | #1,934 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 78 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Procopio mean, and where does it come from?
- Procopius Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Procopio?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /pɾukupju/; in Spanish /prokopio/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Procopio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Procopio in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled procopio.
- How common is the name Procopio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,088 people named Procopio in 2010, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
- How common is Procopio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Procopio is the 589th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/procopioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Procopio” — the 589th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.