Protiva
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nuisance, pain (disliked person)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Protiva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 311Kas Pratibha(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 74K
- NPNepal≈1 in 10Kas Prativa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Protiva itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 named Prativa, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pratibha in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 2 more, Prathibha in MY Malaysia, LK Sri Lanka and Prativa in NP Nepal.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nuisance, pain (disliked person)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Protiva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Prativa | 28 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Pratibha | 3 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Protiva | 17 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Prathibha | 19 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Pratibha | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,071as Pratibha | 1 in 311K | 1.1K | Pratibha | 200 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Prathibha | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Pratibha | 21 |
| IN India | #680 | — | — | 10 | Pratibha | 189 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Protiva is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "opposed."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Protiva Mutsuddib. 1935BDBengali language activist
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 140 | #127,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Protiva mean, and where does it come from?
- nuisance, pain (disliked person) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Protiva a male or female name?
- Protiva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Protiva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Prativa in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Protiva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,071 people named Pratibha in 2020, about 1 in 311 thousand residents.
- How common is Protiva compared with other names?
- In India, Protiva is the 680th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/protivaThe 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, “Protiva” — the 680th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.