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The PROTO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,190 20665 0 4
United States (1880 census) 18 75465 0 0
Change since 1880 +1172 +54800 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 2 229201 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for PROTO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 416 939 0.012 122
New York 162 11447 0.001 9
New Jersey 100 9560 0.001 12
Florida 89 18465 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 66 20863 0.001 5
Top States for PROTO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 416 939 0.012 122
Rhode Island 41 3737 0.004 39
New Jersey 100 9560 0.001 12
New York 162 11447 0.001 9
Nevada 16 14219 0.001 8

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called PROTO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called PROTO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called PROTO in Connecticut than any other state, but you are more likely to find a PROTO by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of PROTO

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the PROTO surname.

Ethnic distribution of PROTO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 29 2.44
Black/African American 20 1.68
Mixed Race 14 1.18
White (Caucasian) 1,125 94.54
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the PROTO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

PROTO is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of PROTO in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of PROTO.

Similar names to PROTO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as PROTO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for PROTO

The following words are slight variants of PROTO that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.