Profeta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Profeta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portuguese, recorded as prophet.
- BRBrazil1 in 41K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 70K
- BEBelgium1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
5,224 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
prophet
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Profeta is read(measured from records)
Profeta is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English41%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Profeta in English.
- Portuguese27%
prophet
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Profeta in Spanish.
- Italian5.0%
do gr. prophétes, via lat. propheta: profeta, adivinhador, vidente.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Profeta 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 | 5,224 | 1 in 41K | 5.2K | Profeta | 75 |
| US United States | 766 | 1 in 434K | 766 | Profeta | 33 |
| AR Argentina | 258 | 1 in 176K | 258 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 145 | 1 in 81K | 145 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 62 | 1 in 136K | 62 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 60 | 1 in 70K | 60 | — | — |
5,224 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Profeta 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 Asturian, prophet (one who speaks by divine inspiration)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, prophetic
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)
- Ottavio Profetab. 1890ITItalian poet (1890-1963)
- Rubino Profetab. 1910ITItalian composer (1910–1985)
- Oswaldo Profetab. 1924BRBrazilian journalist and lawyer
- Laurențiu Profetab. 1925RORomanian composer
- Michele Profetab. 1947ITItalian serial killer (1947-2004)
- Paola Profetab. 1959ITEconomist (CESifo; Bocconi University -> "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA); Bocconi University -> Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management)
- Paola Profetab. 1972ESresearcher
- Luca Profetab. 1990ITItalian footballer
- Nicola Profetab. 2006VEvenezuelan-Colombian footballer (born 2006)
- Cayetano ProfetaARArgentinian architect
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.2K | #2,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 766 | #30,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 751 | #32,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 723 | #30,483 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 258 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 145 | #11,319 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 62 | #15,845 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 60 | #11,668 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 52 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Profeta mean, and where does it come from?
- prophet Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- In which country does Profeta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Profeta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled profeta.
- Where is Profeta most common?
- Profeta is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Profeta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,224 people named Profeta, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/profetaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Profeta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.