Prot
Only 13 living Poles carry it, and none have been registered in recent years. It comes from the Greek for "first" or "firstborn", a name most people here will never meet.
Prot Pronunciation
Prot is pronounced PROT (/prɔt/).
What Prot means
Where Prot comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Prot comes from the Greek "protos," meaning first. It named a firstborn son, the child who came before the rest. The short Polish gloss keeps the same idea: pierwszy, pierworodny. The same root sits in words like proton and prototype, where something stands at the start.
In the church calendar the name belongs to a Roman martyr of the third century. Prot is remembered on September 11, together with his companion Hiacynt, known in Polish as Jacek. Both died in Rome in the early Christian centuries. That date fixes his imieniny, so a boy named Prot finds his day in early autumn.
The name stayed rare. A Prot on a school register turns heads, because most classmates have never met one. There are no common diminutives to soften it, so the name goes about in one form. The Greek root does the work, holding the sense of order and rank near the surface. Prot means first, and the name says so plainly.
When Prot celebrates name day
Prot appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 11 September.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Prot
1 in 1642014 men in Poland is named Prot. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13615 among male names.
Prot as a middle name
Prot is a first name for 13 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 26/74 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1333rd, between Parys (37) and Rami (37).
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#1331 Munashe37
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#1332 Parys37
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#1333 Prot37
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#1334 Rami37
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#1335 Rashid37