Protasio
loc · Latin script
Meaning: griego; ‘el que está delante’, de προτάσσω ‘colocar delante’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Protasio is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
griego; ‘el que está delante’, de προτάσσω ‘colocar delante’
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Protasio counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Protasio is also recorded in 2 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 prôtos, 'primo'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, Dal greco prato8 = primo. Secolo 11. È aempre mao- ciato, nel culto, al fratello e compagno di martirio Qervnsio. 17 giugno. È raro, e non dh alcun cognome.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
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)
- Protasio Girolamo Stambucchib. 1759ITItalian painter (1759–1833)
- Protasio Tagleb. 1839MXMexican soldier
- José Rizalb. 1861PHnot in their usual nameFilipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
- Protásio Dornelles Vargasb. 1877BRbrother of Getúlio Vargas
- Protasioactor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.8K | #2,805 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 185 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 31 | #61,894 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 31 | #61,483 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Protasio mean?
- Recorded meaning: griego; ‘el que está delante’, de προτάσσω ‘colocar delante’
- In which country does Protasio have the most bearers?
- Protasio is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled protasio.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/protasioThe 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, “Protasio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.